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SF Mayor Breed clinches full term by Matthew S. Bajko

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Interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus thanks supporters Tuesday.

SF DA’S race is a nail-biter

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nterim District Attorney Suzy Loftus held a slim lead of 240 votes over Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin early Wednesday, potentially staving off a major upset in the closely-watched race for San Francisco district attorney, according to unofficial results from the Department of Elections. Loftus, former president of the San Francisco Police Commission, was endorsed by much of the city’s political establishment – including the Democratic County Central Committee, Mayor London Breed, and former San Francisco District Attorney Senator Kamala Harris, now a U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate. Boudin is a progressive challenger, a public defender whose parents went to prison themselves. He was endorsed by Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and gay former state senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco). The DA’s race had been the first one without an incumbent in over a century – until District Attorney George Gascón resigned last month to run for the same seat in Los Angeles, and Breed appointed Loftus as the interim district attorney. Rounding out the field were Alameda County prosecutor Nancy Tung and California Deputy Attorney General Leif Dautch. Loftus’ election night party was held at Churchill, a World War II-inspired bar in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood. Crowds were enthusiastic when the first round of results showed Loftus opening with a lead over Boudin – and maintaining it after several rounds of ranked-choice numbers were run. But then the race tightened. As of press time, Loftus had 50.13% of the vote, followed by Boudin with 49.87%. In third and fourth places were Tung and Dautch, respectively. Paul Henderson, a gay man who is the head of the Department of Police Accountability, said late Tuesday that the close results were “shocking.” He backed Loftus. “I’m so close to Suzy; our families spent Thanksgiving together,” Henderson said. “I believe a lot in democracy and I want folks to demonstrate with their voices. That’s what it is – good, bad, or ugly we get what we choose.” Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said he was “cautiously optimistic” for Loftus and for Vallie Brown, the District 5 supervisor who, like Loftus, was endorsed by the See page 17 >>

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ayor London Breed easily clinched her election to a full four-year term Tuesday. The result had been expected, as the San Francisco native who grew up in public housing had faced five little-known opponents. It allowed Breed, the first black woman elected to Room 200 at City Hall, to focus instead on passing a $600 million bond measure for affordable housing on the November 5 ballot. The largest such bond in the city’s history, it had reached the two-thirds threshold it needed to pass based on the unofficial returns Wednesday morning. Passage of the bond as well as another measure making it easier to build below-marketrate housing for teachers is a major victory for Breed as she attempts to deal with a housing crisis that is driving the middle class and lowincome workers out of San Francisco in search of cheaper places to live. According to unofficial returns Wednesday, Breed took first place with nearly 78% of the vote, or 74,428 total votes after six rounds of ranked-choice voting. In second place was Ellen Lee Zhou, who was accused of using racist tropes against the mayor during the campaign, with 21,707 votes for 23% of the total ballots cast. Also sailing to an easy win Tuesday night with 99.66% of the vote was City Attorney Dennis

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed easily won election to a full four-year term Tuesday and celebrated at the Swedish American Hall.

Herrera, who was unopposed in his bid for a sixth term. He was one of a number of citywide candidates, including those running for sheriff, public defender, and treasurer-tax collector, who did not face an opponent Tuesday. Breed celebrated her second mayoral election victory and that of the bond measure at the Swedish American Hall on upper Market Street in the city’s Castro district, not far from where she lives in the Lower Haight neighborhood.

She had won the special election in June 2018 to serve out the remainder of the late mayor Ed Lee’s term following his sudden death in December 2017. “When I look on this last year, there were a lot of people who were concerned. They were concerned about how I would work with the Board of Supervisors,” said Breed. “They were See page 17 >>

D5 supe race too close to call by David-Elijah Nahmod

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ean Preston held a slim lead over incumbent Vallie Brown in the hotly contested race for San Francisco District 5 supervisor, according to unofficial returns. As of early Wednesday through three rounds of ranked choice voting, Preston had 6,439 votes to Brown’s 6,221, with 99% of the precincts reporting, according to the Department of Elections. It may be a few days until the final results are known as mail-in and provisional ballots are counted. “I think it’s going to go back and forth,” Brown told the Bay Area Reporter shortly after midnight as she left Church of 8 Wheels, a former church turned skating rink, where she held her Election Night party. She remained hopeful that she would win the election, and cited a proposed Navigation Center for the homeless as one of her top priorities. She also vowed to improve Muni’s on-time performance by seeing to it that more drivers were hired. “For the last class of Muni drivers, 80 people signed up,” she said. “It used to be 15-20 people, so in a few years we’ll have the people we need to drive buses.” Preston spoke to his supporters around 11 p.m. “What is missing in so many campaigns is a vision of what this town could be if we did

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District 5 Supervisor Vallie Brown, right, greets supporter Joel Medina and his dog, Carly, at Brown’s election night party at the Church of 8 Wheels in the Western Addition.

not surrender to the darkest forces of capitalism and neo-liberalism,” he said. “We are going to change with mass mobility, democratic socialism, and fearless advocacy for the things we know are right. What we have in this town is not inevitable – people on the street, incarcerating people of color, astronomical rents. This town can be different.” As the B.A.R. previously noted, Preston hopes to bring forth a ballot initiative next November that would tax large corporations

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that have annual revenues of at least $50 million in order to raise an estimated $300 million a year for Muni. Half the funds would be used for infrastructure and higher salaries, while the rest would be used for fare reductions and bicycle and pedestrian safety. Preston said he’d like to see a free Muni. Brown was not sure if she could support the initiative. “We’ve got to have Muni safe,” she said in a See page 16 >>

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SF LGBT data collection shows marked improvement by Matthew S. Bajko

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wo years after San Francisco ordered half a dozen city agencies to track the number of LGBT people they serve, the departments are reporting they have ramped up their data collection efforts in recent months in order to meet the mandate. Based on the reports from the six city agencies, which the Bay Area Reporter reviewed ahead of a public hearing scheduled for Thursday, various issues remain in ensuring numerous city-run programs are accurately collecting sexual orientation and gender identity data. LGBT advocates have long argued that without the SOGI information the city cannot adequately address the needs of the LGBT community. Nonetheless, there have been marked improvements since the city agencies released their first SOGI data collection reports last fall and discussed their efforts at a City Hall hearing in the spring. “It does seem like a positive change,” said Clair Farley, a senior adviser to Mayor London Breed who is, as director of the city’s Office of Transgender Initiatives, working with the departments on their SOGI data collection efforts. “There also seems to be more detail in the reports since the last hearing on where providers are serving LGBT folks and where there are gaps.” At the request of gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, the Board of Supervisors’ government audit and oversight committee will hold a hearing Thursday, November 7, on how city agencies are meeting the mandate to collect the SOGI data. It is the second time this year that Mandelman has requested a report back from the sextet of departments. He told the B.A.R. Tuesday that there has been progress made over

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Clair Farley, center, shown speaking at Mayor London Breed’s Transgender Awareness Month reception November 1, thinks city departments have improved in their collection of SOGI data.

the last 12 months but that the departments have a ways to go in order to adequately meet the SOGI data mandate. “They are all appearing to make some kind of effort to gather some kind of information and put it in a report available to us. They are beginning to fulfill the SOGI mandate,” said Mandelman, though he pointed out “there is not consistency across departments at all” with some “further behind” than others. As of July 1, 2017 the collection of SOGI data became a requirement for the Department of Public Health; Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development; Department of Human Services; the Department of Aging and Adult Services; the Department of Children, Youth and their Families; and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Contractors that receive more than $50,000 a year in city funds are also required to collect the SOGI data. Meeting the requirement has been

a slow slog for most city agencies, as the B.A.R. has previously reported, due to having to update their computer systems, retool their data collection protocols, and train staff on how to best ask the SOGI questions. At the hearing this spring city officials acknowledged that they were behind in fully ramping up their SOGI data collection due to myriad reasons. But based on their latest updates, the city agencies appear to be on track to greatly increase their SOGI data collection during the current fiscal year, which began July 1 and runs through June 30, 2020. Doing so is critical in order to have a better grasp on how they are providing services to LGBT people and where improvements are needed, as well as where the city should direct more resources. “I really feel the departments are really motivated to do this well despite working across all different systems and with limited capacity,” said Farley, whose office has more than 15 trainings scheduled through the end of the

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year with various city departments to help them be more LGBT inclusive. “One of the main hurdles we have left is to continue to have a broader equity review in terms of what city-funded programs are accessible to the LGBT community and where additional work is needed to ensure those programs are inclusive.” The city continues to grapple with what SOGI data needs to be collected by the various agencies. Several departments that mainly deal with housing programs have received partial waivers from the city administrator’s office not to have to collect information on participants’ sex assigned at birth. That question has proved to be a complicated one to ask, and in consultation with Farley’s office, city officials have determined that the information is really only needed to be collected by health care professionals.

Results vary by department

In a 39-page report issued in August, the San Francisco Human Services Agency noted that it “wholeheartedly supports the SOGI data collection ordinance and has worked hard to comply with it.” The agency also noted that it must meet a state law requiring the collection of SOGI data. Its compliance with the SOGI requirements has been hampered by “the complexity of the agency,” noted its report, “and the fact that SOGI data is collected by around 140 programs or contracts and is stored in 11 different computer systems has translated to a heavy implementation lift.” HSA noted in its report covering the 2018-2019 fiscal year that some of its programs utilize a statewide or county consortium computer system, which limited its ability to dictate how SOGI data is tracked and delayed implementation for some programs. The city agency is working with the

Office of the Controller’s Performance Audit Group to recommend best practices for reporting and analyzing SOGI data in the future. Under the agency’s purview are numerous programs that have reported specific issues their staff have encountered in trying to collect the SOGI data. San Francisco Adult Protective Services, for instance, has found that when its workers make unannounced visits responding to reports of suspected abuse asking about SOGI can be “a challenge” because their presence is unsolicited by the client. Staffers have also commented that they “fear losing engagement and opportunity to address abuse with some older adult populations” because of having to ask the SOGI questions. The In-Home Supportive Services Program for Medi-Cal clients with disabilities, meanwhile, did not see the SOGI fields and translated forms put in place by the state until midSeptember 2018, noted the report. It has since been updating its client records, so that now 44% are missing sexual orientation and gender identity information. Another 6% declined to answer the sexual orientation question and 2% declined to answer the gender identity question. “Since comprehensive data collection was delayed until the fall of 2018 (due to state forms and systems), it is encouraging that a majority of IHSS FY18-19 client records contain SOGI data; the proportion of clients with missing data should decline next fiscal year,” predicted the report. “Overall collection of SOGI data in IHSS has been successful.” About 85% of the clients who have received an intake and/or assessment visit have recorded answers to SOGI questions, reported the agency. However, due in part to statewide delays in See page 14 >>

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ow that Mayor London Breed has won a full four-year term – with 78% of the vote, according to unofficial returns – it’s time for her administration to quickly complete the process for opening a meth sobering center. As we recently reported, such a facility was at the top of 17 recommendations made by the city’s Methamphetamine Task Force, which convened most of this year and issued its final report last month. According to the report, the Department of Public Health estimates that there are 24,500 people who inject drugs in San Francisco, with recent data suggesting that 39% of them reported injecting meth. Many in this group identify as LGBTQ, as was found by an earlier city task force established by former mayor Gavin Newsom that focused specifically on the queer community. This year’s task force looked at the city as a whole. Meth is an addictive drug, and getting clean is very difficult; continued use can be deadly. The city reports that since 2008, deaths determined to have been caused by a methamphetamine overdose climbed from 1.8 per 100,000 people to 14.6 in 2018, or 126 deaths. Among decedents experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, methamphetamine was the most commonly present substance (47%), according to the report. The association between methamphetamine use and psychosis is reflected in the number of visits to psychiatric emergency services, of which nearly half (47%) are related to meth. The report noted that, according to the San Francisco Police Department, the number of arrests involving methamphetamine has also steadily risen since 2003, and the percentage of these arrests have trended upward since 2008, from 1 in 20 to roughly 1 in 5 in 2018. The task force concluded that methamphetamine use disorder is a medical condition that is caused by chronic use of methamphetamine and impairs an individual’s ability to carry out daily life activities. Long-

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Mayor London Breed addressed supporters at her Election Night party Tuesday.

term use of the drug can cause significant damage to the individual’s brain, heart, lungs, and other organ systems. When an individual stops using methamphetamine, intense cravings, anxiety and depression may follow and last for many months thereafter. Armed with this information and much more, the task force advocates for the creation of a trauma-informed sobering site with integrated harm reduction services for individuals who are under the influence of methamphetamine. In other words, a safe space where people can come down from their high and be linked with services. Meth use will not be permitted. The task force’s report stated that a meth sobering center is a short-term goal, meaning it could open within a year. We’d like to see it in operation sooner, say six to nine months, along with other short-term recommendations: expand availability and duration of treatment models across the continuum of harm reduction services, and prioritize and protect housing for people seeking treatment. The latter is critically

important: people are unlikely to seek treatment if they fear losing their housing. For those who are unhoused and in treatment, the task force urges that the city ensure they are assessed for housing priority. The report also looks at police response, and in the short term, recommends ensuring that law enforcement staff are trained to use an integrated crisis intervention approach. “It is critical,” the report states, “that first responders such as law enforcement officers are equipped to engage people in a manner that reduces the person’s agitation and the risk of harms and trauma to the individual, staff, and the general public.” The report states, “Academy training for officers could expand current crisis intervention training to incorporate a trauma informed lens that focuses on de-escalation, harm reduction, and the goal of connecting individuals under the influence of methamphetamine to services and care.” Other recommendations advocate for cultural competency in care and services, simplifying the bureaucratic process for admission to programs, and increasing the capacity of programs. All are important, but opening the meth sobering center is key. The goal is to engage people quickly, setting some on the path to recovery through harm reduction. Last year, after Breed was sworn in following her election to finish the term of the late mayor Ed Lee, we wrote that Breed should begin work on various projects to help stem homelessness. She has devoted much time and energy to that. We still want to see a Navigation Center for queer homeless youth, and it seems the city is now seeking a shelter for transitional age youth (18-24) and a floor of a Navigation Center dedicated for LGB people. As with these types of facilities, however, finding a site is the main hurdle due to objections from residents who usually don’t want them as neighbors. This is the wrong attitude that will do nothing to alleviate a problem that is only getting worse. Let’s try a meth sobering center and see how it works. t

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hen I read the article about the city awarding $1.15 million in contracts to two reputable nonprofits over the next two years, I was overjoyed, especially since the recipients, St. James Infirmary and Larkin Street Youth Services, are well qualified and have a good track record [“SF awards contracts for trans subsidies,” October 10.] When I was homeless in Pennsylvania, I often hesitated to seek help due to lack of cultural competency, and the new program here makes sure that transgender San Franciscans have a lifeline. I also read from the article that someone like myself, who lives in a single-room occupancy hotel, may not be eligible for this program. While I am very supportive of this appropriation, it has made me think about the work I do as a member of the San Francisco Single Room Occupancy Task Force, and how while and I and many other members of our bodies push for policies that make SROs more healthy and safe, as well as affordable and dignified, we need to make sure that our most vulnerable people do not need to live in SROs long term. This includes seniors, families, disabled folks, and yes, there is going to be a need to have transgender people moved from SROs to apartments, as well as from the street/shelter to apartments. In late 2017-early 2018, I helped to shepherd first-of-its-kind legislation through the Board of Supervisors to require that single-use common restrooms in residential settings are gender-neutral. However, many common restrooms in SROs are multi-stall, and it can create problems for transgender and gender-nonconforming tenants. Furthermore, there are many tenants in SROs who may or may not have LGBTQ friendly attitudes; this was perfectly illustrated when I helped pass a recommendation before the task force for single-use

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restrooms in hotels to be gender-neutral, and one of the people who voted no was the other tenant representative (who has since left the task force). Then there are the issues faced by transgender people who seek surgery through the Department of Public Health’s program. When I came to San Francisco homeless, I was told that I would need housing in order to get surgery, and even as I was seeking an orchiectomy, I was told that I would need a unit with a private bathroom, which I was lucky enough to get through the reasonable accommodation program through the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. When I got home from surgery, I learned the need for a private bathroom for recovery fairly quickly. This was a simple orchiectomy, imagine how a person who has recently received vaginoplasty would fare if the restroom was down the hall? The living conditions within

SROs can vary wildly as well. As an SRO/low-income housing activist, we must think of ways not only to make SROs the best they can be, but to make sure that SROs are not a permanent home for transgender and nonbinary people, as well as seniors, disabled, families, and other vulnerable communities. As such, I urge the mayor to, in allocating these subsidies, make sure that transgender people living in SROs can move into apartments, in addition to diverting the community out of SROs altogether. SROs were never intended to be permanent housing, and while I am glad that many transgender SRO tenants are not on the street or in often-gendered shelter settings, and I am hoping to see 111 Taylor Street purchased by the city on behalf of the trans community instead of it being a halfway house run by shady private prison corporations, we have the ability to do better. As trans activist Aria Sa’id has said, “We need to get to a place where we are looking beyond these prescribed housing models. Trans people deserve to live in all the districts of San Francisco. I want to be a leader in thinking forward on what humane housing for transgender housing looks like – no bed bugs, private bathrooms, a full kitchen, etc. Basically stop putting trans people in substandard SROs and calling it ‘equitable’ housing.” I am hoping that the mayor and the Board of Supervisors can look at this as a next step. t Jordan Davis is a trans woman who is a member of the San Francisco Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Task Force.

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Gay SF treasurer Cisneros prepares for historic 5th term

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an Francisco City Treasurer-Tax Collector José Cisneros cakewalked into his fifth term Tuesday, as he ran unopposed. Cisneros, a gay man, is the only LGBT person to hold one of the city’s seven elected executive positions. And his re-election sets him up to increase his record as the longestserving openly gay elected official at the city level. In September, Cisneros marked his 15th year of being San Francisco’s treasurer. He has now surpassed the previous record held by gay former supervisors Tom Ammiano and Harry Britt, who both served on the Board of Supervisors for 14 years. Cisneros, 63, has held his post, which is not term limited, since 2004 when former mayor Gavin Newsom, now the state’s governor, appointed him to fill a vacancy. No one has challenged Cisneros since he first ran for the position in 2005. This year marked his fifth time seeking the treasurer post, as Cisneros had to run for a two-year term in 2013 after voters approved a switch to the city’s election timetable that conjoined five races for citywide executive offices, including that of treasurer-tax collector, mayor, and city attorney, to odd years. Leading up to the November 5 election, Cisneros did not send out any mailers to voters or pay for advertisements. Nor did he take the day off to campaign, instead spending Tuesday hard at work as the city’s banker and chief investment officer. He told the Bay Area Reporter that he planned to celebrate his easy victory – unofficial returns Wednesday morning had him receiving 99.67% of the vote – at dinner with a few close friends Tuesday night. “I am honored to be able to do this work and sit in this position and work for the people of San Francisco,” said Cisneros, who is married to San Francisco Human Rights Commissioner Mark Kelleher, a senior adviser at BroderickHaight Consulting. As the city’s treasurer, Cisneros’s main focus is collecting taxes and revenues. In that capacity, he publicly sparred with home-rental sites like Airbnb over their initial refusal to collect and pay the same occupancy tax San Francisco imposes on city hotels. Wednesday morning he and his office were watching to see if Proposition D would pass. It would impose a new tax on ride shares such as Uber and Lyft in the city and was just barely meeting the two-thirds threshold it needed with 66.66% of the vote according to the unofficial returns. “As with all other proposals like that, we work with the authors of those measures and those taxes to make sure we can successfully administer them,” said Cisneros. “If voters pass that it will be another new project and initiative we have to get underway and perform for the public.” Ever since the economic meltdown of 2008 Cisneros and his office have been involved in talks to form a cityrun public bank. He recently released a report on what doing so would entail based on the work of a task force that the supervisors called for last year. Cisneros, however, has remained neutral on the idea as he awaits guidance from Mayor London Breed and the supervisors on moving forward with a public bank now that state lawmakers have allowed municipalities to form such fiscal institutions. “Chances are we would be included if they decide to go forward on that,” said Cisneros.

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Treasurer-Tax Collector José Cisneros easily won re-election.

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He demurred when asked about his future political plans. Cisneros will be 67 when his new term expires in 2023. “I always decide those things closer to election time,” he said when asked if he had already determined if he would run for a sixth term as treasurer.

SF voters elect education appointees

Both of the San Francisco education officials on Tuesday’s ballot easily sailed to victory. Facing two littleknown opponents was school board member Jenny Lam. She was appointed by Breed in January to serve out Matt Haney’s term through 2020, as he stepped down following his election last fall to the District 6 supervisor seat. Lam easily defeated challengers Kirsten Strobel and Robert K. Coleman, setting her up to run next November for a full four-year term overseeing the San Francisco Unified School District. According to the unofficial returns Wednesday morning, Lam took first

place with 71.67% of the vote. Running unopposed was community college board member Ivy Lee, appointed by Breed in July 2018 to serve out the term of Rafael Mandelman, who stepped down after being elected last year as the District 8 supervisor. She had received 99.57% of the vote as of Wednesday morning. Lee will serve through the end of 2020 and has already stated she will not seek a full term overseeing City College of San Francisco. She is widely expected to instead seek the District 7 seat on the Board of Supervisors, as her boss, board President Norman Yee, will be termed out of office next year.

Lesbian enters special CA Senate race

Lesbian Palm Springs resident Joy Silver is the first out candidate to announce they will run in the special election for an open California Senate seat. As the B.A.R. reported online last week, former state Senator Jeff Stone (R-La Quinta) resigned November 1 in order to join the Trump administration as the Western Regional director in the Department of Labor. Silver narrowly lost to Stone last November and had already announced she planned to run again in 2022 for the 28th District seat, which represents a large swath of Riverside County, including the LGBT retirement and vacation meccas in the Coachella Valley. In an email to supporters Friday, Silver disclosed that she would enter the special election to fill Stone’s seat. Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to schedule it to coincide with the March 3 primary. “After the last election, it will come as no big shock to you that Mr. Stone has decided to join the circus of corruption we are witnessing in Trump’s administration. He’s abandoning his post and the people of Riverside County,” wrote Silver. “But the good news is that we have a new chance to elect a representative who will actually fight for us. If it is the will of the people, I would be honored to be that person.” Transgender Palm Springs City Councilwoman Lisa Middleton is also considering a run for the seat. She could make history if she does enter and win, as she would be the first trans person to serve in the state’s Legislature and be the first transgender state senator in the country. As of Wednesday morning, she had yet to announce a decision. Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) jumped into the race Monday night. Should she win, she would only be able to serve in the seat through 2022 due to term limits. Republican Temecula City Councilman Matt Rahn, who had initially received Stone’s endorsement last week, dropped out of the race Tuesday and endorsed Melendez, as did Stone. He said he would wait to run until 2022. If no candidate wins 50% plus one of the vote in the special election then the top two votegetters will advance to a runoff election, likely to be held in May. t

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Breed kicks off trans awareness month compiled by Cynthia Laird

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ayor London Breed raised the trans flag at San Francisco City Hall Friday, marking the beginning of Transgender Awareness Month. City Hall was lit in the pink, light blue, and white colors of the trans flag Friday evening. This is the second time the city has declared November as trans awareness month. Last year, in a surprise to attendees at what was then called Transgender Awareness Week, Breed and the Office of Transgender Initiatives said the month would be commemorated as a time for trans and gender-nonconforming people and their allies to come together to celebrate successes and take action on issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence. Friday started with the news that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is stripping non-discrimination protections, including protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, in all HHS grants, which are made up of taxpayer dollars. The new proposal, the Transgender Law Center said in a news release, will also give HHS the green light to fund recipients who do not treat same-sex marriages as valid. Breed wasted no time in condemning the administration’s latest move. “The president even today rolled out plans against the trans community that can take away millions of dollars from the community,” she said. “Despite transphobic and bigoted efforts around the country to dismantle the rights of trans people, our trans community will never be erased,” Breed said in a news release before the event. “In San Francisco, we celebrate our diversity. We are committed to continuing our investment in the trans community by providing support through the enactment of policies and programs.” Each November, the community comes together to recognize the Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20.

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Mayor London Breed kicks off Transgender Awareness Month during a ceremony at City Hall November 1 where she raised the trans flag.

The Office of Transgender Initiatives is a historic trans-led city government office launched to develop innovative policies and programs that support the transgender, gender-nonconforming, and LGBTQ communities. The office was created by the late mayor Ed Lee and is the first and only municipal office of its kind. “Here in San Francisco we celebrate Transgender Awareness Month to highlight the way that the community and the city are working together to advance equity for trans and gender-nonconforming communities,” said Clair Farley, a trans woman who is director of the office. “This is also a time to ground ourselves in our observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day where we pay respect to the lives of predominately black transgender women we have lost to antitrans violence. “As transgender people are under attack across the country San Francisco will not rest until everyone in our community is thriving and has a safe place to call home,” she added. To that end, this year Breed funded the Our Trans Home SF program to provide rental subsidies. Last month, the city awarded $1.15 million for each of the next two fiscal years to two nonprofits to provide direct rental subsidies to help keep transgender

and gender-nonconforming people in their homes or find housing. “Our Trans Home SF will be a gamechanger,” the mayor said at the event. As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, St. James Infirmary and Larkin Street Youth Services were awarded the contracts. The recipients can be of any age; Larkin received the contract for its rental subsidy experience, Farley said at the time. At the event, Toni Newman, executive director of St. James, said people can begin applying for the subsidies December 1. She has recently hired several people who will be trained on the project this month. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman praised the city’s budget allocation. “The trans civil rights movement started in San Francisco at the Compton’s Cafeteria riot,” he said in the release, referring to the August 1966 uprising that saw transgender patrons of the Tenderloin restaurant stand up against the police, who were called to Compton’s to quell a disturbance. Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (DSan Francisco) named some of the trans people lost to violence this year: Itali Marlowe, who was shot multiple times in Houston last month; Elisha Chanel Stanley, who was found dead in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in September; Bailey Reeves, who was shot multiple times in Baltimore in September; and Jordan Cofer, a trans man who was shot in the mass shoot-

ing in Dayton, Ohio in August. Marlowe’s death marks the 21st of a trans person this year, according to the Human Rights Campaign. “As our federal government turns its back on, and attacks, the transgender community, we must recommit to stand with our transgender neighbors,” Wiener added. Under Breed’s leadership, the city has also increased its investment in LGBTQ arts and culture programs, including the Transgender Film Festival (November 7-10) and the Compton’s Transgender Cultural District. The Bob Ross Foundation, named in honor of the B.A.R.’s founding publisher, sponsored the Friday reception.

UCSF building campaign to reduce HIV stigma

UCSF, in conjunction with the city’s Getting to Zero campaign to dramatically reduce HIV transmission and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, is seeking participants for its SF Loves campaign. The goal of the campaign is to celebrate the progressive heritage of San Francisco and expand the conversation about HIV within the city’s stigmatized communities. SF Love is a dialogue that integrates a celebration of love and connection and what it takes to live a full and courageous live. Participants are needed during the week of November 11. The deadline is Friday, November 8. Those selected will receive a stipend of $100 for their participation. Interested people should contact recruiting@510media.com.

Veterans Day parades

San Jose and San Francisco will hold parades next week to honor veterans. In San Francisco, the parade will take place Sunday, November 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The parade will start on the Embarcadero at North Point Street, traveling north-west on the Embarcadero to Jefferson Street, then west on Jefferson Street past the review stand near Leavenworth Street. In San Jose, the Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center will have a contingent in the parade, which takes place Monday, November 11, beginning at noon. The parade is near the SAP Center, 525 West Santa Clara

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Street in San Jose. The DeFrank center is entry 64 and will be staging on Delmas Avenue, west side parking lot, beginning at 11:15. People are asked to support trans people in the military and can bring trans flags and friends, organizers said.

Lavender Seniors marks 25 years

Lavender Seniors of the East Bay will mark 25 years with a celebration and fundraiser Saturday, November 9, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Eve’s Waterfront Restaurant, 15 Embarcadero West in Oakland. Longtime LGBTQ community activist Peggy Moore will serve as host. Entertainment includes the Oakland Gay Men’s Chorus, VOICES Lesbian A Cappella for Justice, and Mothertongue Feminist Readers Theater. There will be a no host bar. Tickets are $25 and are available through the organization’s website at www.lavenderseniors. org/25years. Tickets will not be available at the door.

Hormel center fellowship applications open

The James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the main San Francisco Public Library is now accepting applications for its second social media fellow. In an announcement on its website, the center noted that its first fellow, Mason J., will finish their term at the end of November. The right candidate will work to dramatically expand awareness and use of the community collection of LGBTQIA history and culture. For more information and to download the application, go to https://www.friendssfpl.org/hormel.html. The deadline is December 2.

Oakland mayor starts holiday toy drive

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has announced the start of donations for the 41st annual Mayor’s Community Toy Drive. It distributes an estimated 16,000 toys, books, gift cards, and sports equipment to low-income families each year. See page 16 >>

San Francisco housing bond OK’d by John Ferrannini

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ousing advocates were elated with the passage of Proposition A, the $600 million bond measure for affordable housing. The largest such bond in the city’s history, it had 69.46% support based on the unofficial returns Wednesday morning, reaching the twothirds threshold it needed to pass. Mayor London Breed and all 11 members of the Board of Supervisors backed the bond, which earmarks money specifically for housing developments for seniors, educators, and low- and middleincome households. She joined forces with the Yes on A campaign to hold her victory party Tuesday night at the Swedish American Hall on upper Market Street in the city’s Castro district. “We know that providing a safe, affordable place to call home is what’s going to change the challenges with poverty, homelessness and all the things that we’re dealing with. So we got to get that housing built now,” said Breed. The measure, said District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee, president of the board, aims to help the people who are the “backbone of our communities” find housing in the city.

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Board of Supervisors President Norman Yee spoke to supporters at the Prop A party Tuesday.

“It’s about helping every single person in San Francisco that wants to live here, that cannot afford to live here,” said Yee, noting that, “These are our relatives. These are your kids. These are your friends. They want to stay in San Francisco, but have not been able to afford it.” Language in the bond also directs the city to prioritize projects in neighborhoods that have seen few affordable housing developments built. It could benefit Dis-

trict 8, including the city’s LGBT Castro district, by allowing the city to purchase smaller properties with rent-controlled units. “I want to see that happen in the next four to eight years and I think we will,” said gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. “We desperately need it.” Todd David, executive director of the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, told the Bay Area Reporter that most of the money is likely to go to housing projects

already in the pipeline. As for District 8, he noted that finding land to build on is the biggest challenge as most of the neighborhoods within it are built out. “The best option will be to buy existing properties through the small-site acquisition program and make them permanently affordable,” said David, who lives with his wife and their children in Noe Valley on the border with the Castro. For the city as a whole, passage of Prop A “is significant,” said David, as “our housing shortage is severe. This will help address the housing market for the lowest income San Franciscans.” In other news, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition C, which would have overturned the city’s ban on e-cigarette sales pending review from the Food and Drug Administration. As of the unofficial results early Wednesday, 80.4% of voters voted against Prop C. The Yes on C campaign had been bankrolled by Juul Labs Inc., but lost steam after a spate of vaping-related illnesses and deaths began to sweep the nation in the late summer. Thirty-seven deaths in 24 states and 1,888 cases of lung injury associated with vaping have been reported to the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention as of press time. On September 30, Juul announced it would no longer fund Yes on C, which subsequently decided “not to continue with the campaign,” according to a statement. The San Francisco-based ecigarette manufacturer had bigger problems to face – its CEO stepped down in late September and a federal lawsuit alleges that Juul knowingly sold contaminated pods. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who won re-election in a race without opposition on Tuesday, issued a statement blasting Juul as the first returns came in. “Juul spent millions trying to mislead San Franciscans and rewrite the rules to benefit itself before realizing that was a fool’s errand,” stated Herrera. “It could have put that time and effort into completing the required FDA review. “If Juul had done that the day Supervisor Shamann Walton and I introduced our e-cigarette legislation back in March, Juul would have had its answer from the FDA by now. Perhaps FDA review is a test that Juul is afraid it can’t pass,” See page 12 >>

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Panel: While tech industry booms, small biz struggles by Sari Staver

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hile the tech industry continues to boom, San Francisco’s small businesses are fighting to stay alive. That was one of the conclusions of a panel of small business people held October 29 that was sponsored by the United Democratic Club. The panel was entitled, “The Cost of Doing Business: Can Small Business Survive in San Francisco?” Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman acknowledged that the same issues making the city more difficult for residents, including crime, homelessness, and substance abuse, “hit small businesses acutely.” Referring to Manny Yekutiel, a gay man and owner of the eponymous year-old cafe in the Mission district where the event was held, Mandelman said, “business owners shouldn’t have to be as superhuman as Manny is to survive” in San Francisco. Yekutiel “has worked his ass off” to schedule excellent programming, said Mandelman. According to Mandelman, small business owners in the Castro say their biggest challenge is that they “don’t know who is going to come in through the front door.” Panel members described incidents where people with substance abuse or mental health issues threw things at workers or customers and disrupted business. A recent Board of Supervisors hearing presented an “alarming picture” of the state of the restaurant industry, with more restaurants closing than opening in the city last year, he added. With many different issues contributing to the difficulty of running a restaurant, said Mandelman, some can be “difficult” to discuss because they involve the “equity and rights” of local residents as well as those living on the

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Stacy Jed, left, board president of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, joined Angel Davis, co-owner of Fig and Thistle wine bars, and District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman at a panel on challenges facing small businesses.

street in the neighborhood. In addition to the financial burden of minimum wages and contributions to health insurance, owners of restaurants typically face the expensive process of meeting city regulations to become licensed. “Working their way through the bureaucracy” can add up to high costs before a business is even open, he said. Mandelman said the board is “looking at” various fees that could possibly be reduced or eliminated through legislative waivers. While the city is the center of the technology boom, ironically city government it not “tech savvy,” said Mandelman. Departments, including building inspection and planning, are trying to establish computer systems that can track permits, he added. Mandelman said that many legislative proposals with potential to improve neighborhood conditions “die because we are paralyzed” with distrust of each others’ intentions. For example, he said, the city has been unable to successfully address the dramatic increase of people “camping” outdoors; the conversa-

tion about the topic was taken over by a small number of people with loud voices opposing stricter enforcement. The establishment of a meth sobering center is one idea with potential to improve conditions, he said. That was recommended last month by the city’s meth task force, which Mandelman co-chaired with gay city Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax. Stacy Jed, president of the board of directors of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, said that last year, 325 restaurants in San Francisco closed, with only 298 opening, a trend that began two years ago, after decades of more restaurants opening than closing in the city. Restaurants are facing challenges “they have never seen before,” said Jed. Compared to tech companies – where the business gets to keep, on average, 60%-85% of revenue, restaurants operate on slim profit margins, typically 3%-5%, “if you’re good,” Jed said. Restaurants that fail do so for “myriad of reasons,” she said, including inexperienced owners and

managers and poor concept. Most restaurant owners want their workers to have a healthy “live work balance” and good health care “but there are limits to what we can do” and still survive, she said. Restaurant costs are “outpacing their income,” she said, noting that large “prominent” restaurants are “equally challenged” when compared to smaller little known places. As an increasing number of restaurant workers move to less expensive cities, owners must figure out a way to bring “creativity and excitement” to the industry. Long term, the city must build affordable housing but in the meantime, other solutions are necessary, she said. Darolyn Davis, chief executive officer at Davis and Co., a public relations firm, urged the city to update its regulations involving small business. Davis pointed to San Francisco’s Chapter 14B, the Local Business Enterprise Ordinance. It passed 20 years ago to maximize opportunities for local small businesses to compete for city contracts and sets aside certain public contracts for micro local businesses. Davis said the ordinance must be changed to raise the maximum revenues a company could have to qualify, because many firms have been disqualified as their revenues made them ineligible, forcing them to either go out of business, move to other cities, or keep their revenues below the threshold so they would continue to qualify to participate in the program. Davis, the daughter of retired Bay Area journalist Belva Davis, said that while companies offering professional services are “overwhelmingly” in support of an update to the legislation, they haven’t had much success in convincing a legislator. “Walk with me” in City Hall to

impress supervisors of our need, she urged. Angel Davis (no relation to Darolyn), co-owner of the Fig and Thistle wine bars, including one in the upper Market, said that in addition to having heavy objects thrown at them, one of her colleagues has been repeatedly threatened with rape by a man who comes into the shop. “Nothing can be done,” she said. When the audience was asked to comment or question the panel, two gay business people – Terrance Alan, owner of Flore Cafe and the proposed Flore Store and Steven “Stu” Gerry, a commercial Realtor with Zephyr and the former owner of Cafe Flore, offered their opinions. Because tech companies have much larger profit margins, Alan urged the city to “change the equation” by creating “a more level playing field.” If the city wants to support tourism, Alan urged the city to immediately enact tax breaks for restaurants. Gerry said that he typically has a total of 10-12 commercial listings for sale but now has 34, including 11 in the Castro. For small businesses to succeed in San Francisco, the city is going to have to “act on the low hanging fruit,” which Gerry said included “dirty streets filled with drug addicts.” Restaurant workers “are worried about getting home safely” after their shifts, he added. Many tech companies offer workers free meals, a practice that also hits the bottom of line of local restaurants, he said. “The city needs to plan for the future, not the past,” Gerry said. “People who aren’t mentally capable of being on the street must be taken off the street” until they are capable, he added. t

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New film celebrates Bay Area two spirits by David-Elijah Nahmod

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their Native culture, which isn’t always accepting of two-spirit people. As another gay Native man points out in the film, the rise of Christianity in Native culture has seen an increase in conservative attitudes among some Native peoples. BAAITS, according to its website, “exists to restore and recover the role of two-spirit people within the American Indian/First Nations community by creating a forum for the spiritual, cultural and artistic expression of two-spirit people.” Twospirit people are Native Americans who identify as LGBTQI. “Two-Spirit Powwow” documents the annual celebrations hosted by BAAITS in the Bay Area. The film is a fascinating look inside a culture and an aspect of LGBTQI life that many in the community know little about. The local showings are part of the stations’ Native American Heritage Month programming. “A powwow is an intertribal event that celebrates indigenous heritage through song, dance, culture, tradition, and most importantly, community,” Roger Kuhn of BAAITS told the Bay Area Reporter. “The BAAITS powwow is modeled after an Oklahoma-styled powwow.” Kuhn, 43, is a two-spirit man who is a member of the Poarch Creek Tribe. According to Kuhn, the term two spirit came about in 1990 after a group of indigenous activists and artists came together to push back against colonial terminology that misrepresented gender and sexual variance in indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. “Today, the term two spirit is widely used as an umbrella term for gender and sexual orientation variance in Native American/First Nation communities,” he said. “The

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he added. Proposition B, which changes the name of the Department of Aging and Adult Services to the Department of Disability and Aging Services, passed overwhelmingly with 76.39% of the vote, according to unofficial returns. Prop B is expected to be formalized by late December and also adds new qualifications for three of the seven seats on the department’s commission. The name change is hoped to be a more accurate descriptor of the department, which could potentially help people seeking services be better able to find them. The fate of Proposition D is more dicey. It would impose a tax on rideshare fares originating in San Francisco to help pay for public transportation repairs and bicycle safety measures. The tax would be 1.5% on every shared ride with Uber and Lyft and 3.25% on every private ride. A 2018 study from the San Francisco County Transportation Authority found that Uber and Lyft were responsible for 51% of the increase in extra time spent sitting in traffic between 2010 and 2016 and 47% of the increase in vehicle

Bacigalupi hopes that the film will help to spread awareness in all communities. “There are many nuanced meanings that different tribal groups ascribe to two spirit,” he explained. “To state the obvious, this is not a label that can be exported from its cultural context. Non-natives are not two spirit. The documentary subjects say that recognition is being reestablished within tribal communities, but that colonization introduced prejudices that still exist.” The filmmaker invites people to tune in and understand more about Native culture. “Learn more about a lesser known dimension of the extraordinary people who were here first and who are hosting all the rest of us,” he said. “Some viewers may be of Native heritage themselves but not know about this aspect of their own roots. I would ask them to check out the amazing pan tribal diversity that the two-spirit community encompasses.” t “Two-Spirit Powwow” airs on KPJK-TV Wednesday, November 13, at 7 p.m. and on KRCB-TV Tuesday, November 19, at 9 p.m. and again Thursday, November 21, at noon. Both stations are available over the air, and via Comcast, Dish Network, DirecTV and AT&T Uverse. For channel information, visit www.norcalpublicmedia.org. For more information on BAAITS, visit www.baaits.org.

miles traveled on the city’s roads. Prop D needs 66 and twothirds percent of the vote to pass, and it currently has exactly that – 66.66%, based on unofficial returns. Proposition E passed with 74.5% of the vote, according to unofficial returns. It would change the rules to allow 100% affordable and educator housing in public zoning districts. Rounding out the ballot was Proposition F, which passed with 76.5% of the vote and would create new rules on campaign contributions in an attempt to decrease the influence of developers. Jon Golinger, a co-author of Prop F and the campaign manager for Sunlight on Dark Money Yes on F, said he was “happily surprised” by the margin of victory and hopes it heralds future campaign finance law changes. “Yet again the voters of San Francisco have shown they’re strongly in favor of breaking up a corrupt and big money dominated process in San Francisco politics,” Golinger said. “This makes it a little less likely a land use deal will be approved because of a campaign contribution.” t Matthew S. Bajko contributed reporting.

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Revealing, but not what you think by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

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n 2008, a woman named Jenna Karvunidis sliced open a cake, revealing pink frosting within the layers. With her, the gender reveal party entered the popular lexicon. A decade or so later, the gender reveal has gone a long way from those humble beginnings and in the process became something far different from a cake. I feel that the gender reveal has become the polar opposite of the classic baby shower, and has become an event focused around the trappings of toxic masculinity. While cakes and balloons still certainly exist, one hears about far more hypermasculine ways to reveal a pink or blue cloud of smoke. Of these, an exploding rifle target marketed as the Tannerite Gender Reveal Boom Box seems a common choice. Last year, a Tannerite device led to the Sawmill Fire, burning roughly 47,000 acres in Arizona. That gender reveal blaze ended up costing $8 million in damage, far above the $99 list price of the boom box. In Australia, a 2018 reveal using a car ended up destroying the vehicle after the blue smoke that heralded a baby boy burst into flames. The driver and passengers were able to escape the burning car with their lives. Last month, a 56-year-old Iowa woman was killed when shrapnel from a presumably homemade gender reveal device struck and killed her. Police described the device as functioning much like a pipe bomb.

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Days after that incident, also in Iowa, a Gender Reveal Boom Box caused an explosion that was felt more than two miles away. When one examines the many videos taken at these parties, a pattern emerges. Blue smoke is treated as a success all around, while pink smoke can lead men to sorrow or anger. It’s as if a male is the only “winning” solution, and being revealed as the father of a little girl is viewed as some sort of personal failure. This view is hardly new: the notion of a son “carrying on the family name” is embedded deeply into popular culture, while a daughter is seen as a sign of weakness, not only for her, but also for her father. Among some men, that is viewed as a sign that the father’s own sperm is somehow inferior. Only two things seem to be viewed as an even worse sin: having a child who is homosexual or bisex9.75 in.

ual or, one step even further down the scale, one who is transgender. This is how it was in my own family. While my father was, perhaps, not outwardly upset when an ultrasound revealed that the second child he would have with his wife was a daughter, he likely felt fortunate that he had already preserved his legacy with his first born, the boy who he named after his deceased high school friend, and who he had always pushed toward masculine pursuits. In Texas, there is a 7-year-old named Luna Younger. At age 3, she had her own gender reveal, declaring even then that she was a girl. Her mother, Anne Georgulas, a pediatrician, has accepted her new daughter – but not so for Luna’s father, Jeffrey Younger. Younger, who has lived a life formed around a series of lies – serving with the Marines in Iraq, having never been previously wed, and having a Ph.D. from the University of Dallas – is unwilling to accept Luna’s reality. After her divorce from Younger, according to the Dallas Morning News, Georgulas received, “the right to make decisions about the children’s medical and psychological treatment, among other issues, provided she notified Younger.” Younger fought back, creating a website – since removed – that showed his daughter wearing boys clothing and sporting a buzz cut that Younger gave his daughter. It’s worth noting he didn’t give Luna’s twin brother the same cut. He claimed that the treatment that Luna would undergo would be irreversible, even though – at her age – she would only be allowed to socially transition, and

any medical intervention would start with reversible puberty blockers. Of course, he also had a GoFundMe, raising more than $42,000 for his court fight. Initially, Younger’s push to gain custody over Luna failed before a jury in Dallas, but that was before the Republican governor of Texas, as well as Senator Ted Cruz (R) and other lawmakers, chimed in. Cowed, Judge Kim Cooks overturned the jury decision, awarding joint custody and likely causing untold harm to Luna. Her father will therefore still be allowed to terrorize his daughter, forcing her to live a life in a gender she does not want, and in a way that may unduly damage her. No amount of gunpowder or colored smoke will reveal a gender. All it can do is reveal what genitals your baby has, based on a fairly grainy picture and the best guess of the technician looking at the image. Gender isn’t that easy to pin

down, and doesn’t care what you see in an ultrasound. For Luna, she did reveal her gender, telling her truth, but her dad, like so many glum-faced fathers lumbering awkwardly away from gender reveal results not to their liking, is unwilling to accept it. Now, the courts will allow him to continue to cause harm to his child for years to prevent her from living her truth. This is a tragedy, and one that reveals far more than any gender. It reveals how much our society is willing to fail kids like Luna to preserve a harmful patriarchal system gone mad. Oh, and one more thing: Karvunidis, whose pink icing started all this? She’s repudiated the concept, and, in a recent interview with BuzzFeed News, now celebrate her child’s own self-expression as, “a girl who wears suits.”t Gwen Smith revealed her gender in 1993. You can find her at www.gwensmith.com.

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t’s more than an hour away from San Francisco and tickets start at $100, but cannabis aficionados shouldn’t miss the Emerald Cup, the longest running sun-grown contest, celebration, and farmers market in the world, according to its website. The 13-year-old Emerald Cup, to be held December 14-15 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, is the gold standard for cannabis events, a place where you can smoke in public, see your buddies, hear industry experts and activists discuss the latest issues, and last but not least, taste and buy rare strains grown by some of the most prestigious farms around. On a 200-acre indoor-outdoor fa-

cility, the cup includes hundreds of vendors as well as entertainment, and, of course, “tastings.” You’re allowed to bring your own cannabis or buy some there and enjoy it in designated spots throughout the grounds. To find out why the event is so popular, we reached out to a handful of industry honchos, asking them what they like about it. Elise McRoberts, director of marketing at Doc Green’s Healing Collective in Berkeley and a longtime judge at several cannabis cups wrote, “MY FAVE. It’s the BEST, REAL cannabis event ... You can actually buy and consume the best weed in the world! And then enjoy world class music, panels, art, and food (while high)!” Jimi Devine, senior staff writer at Cannabis Now magazine, wrote, “It’s

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Here’s a rundown of this year’s event: First, the vendors – last year there were over 350 of them, including growers and producers of concentrates and edibles, and companies selling lots of cannabis-related products. You can purchase up to an ounce of flower or eight grams of concentrate, more if you have a medical recommendation. There is no limit on the purchase of seeds. Music this year will include DJ Snoopadelic (aka DJ Snoop Dogg), Santigold, Steel Pulse, The Polish Ambassador, and the Expendables. Sessions and talks are divided by category and include agriculture, policy, wellness, breeding and genetics, cultivation, farming, and culture. Among the more provocative panel discussions is one on cannabis and sex titled, “Igniting Your Spark Between the Sheets.” Cannabis celebrities who will be attending include entertainer and entrepreneur Tommy Chong, who will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award for spearheading the cannabis movement through advocacy of its benefits and accessibility. Hand-blown glass and psychedelic art will be on display and for sale. Tickets are $105-$499 (for a weekend pass and special perks) and are available at https://www.eventbrite. com/e/the-emerald-cup-2019-tickets-68490455797 or www.theemeraldcup.com. People must be 21 or older. The event will be held at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Road in Santa Rosa and will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, December 14, and from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday, December 15. The Emerald Cup also has a Facebook page with updates.

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SOGI implementation, some of its clients received their annual assessment visit prior to SOGI implementation and thus account for the majority of clients with missing SOGI data. In its 13-page report dated September 9, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing noted that it requires all of its contractors and grantees to collect SOGI data. “While HSH has seen progress since FY17-18 in both data collection standards and representation of the LGBTQ+ population utilizing HSH direct services there is much more work to do to ensure equitable representation of these historically underserved communities within the Homelessness Response System,” read the report. HSH continues to roll out its Online Entry and Navigation (ONE) System across the department in order to see that all of the data being collected is in full SOGI compliance. It is

Update on cannabis tax law

After last month’s column and article on Senate Bill 34, which exempts compassionate cannabis programs from state cannabis taxes when they provide free medical marijuana to people living with serious health conditions, a reader asked for details on availability. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill last month. Most compassion programs had to shut down following the passage of Proposition 64, which required donors to pay tax on the products they donated, making it too costly for most programs to continue. We asked Payan, who is in charge of the compassion program for the Apothecarium, how quickly she thought programs would restart. “We are in the midst of figuring out the compassion program relaunch,” she wrote in an email. “Two years pushing for this and now I’m deciphering everything to make sure we remain in compliance and we have a rich program that truly helps patients. The bill says the program will go live when track and trace is updated to support the program, or by 3/20/20, whichever comes first.” And Joe Airone, founder of Sweet Leaf Collective, which distributed over 100 pounds of free cannabis to low-income, terminally ill patients in 2017, said that his organization has been able to continue distributing free pot by fundraising to pay the taxes now required under law. Airone said that at the moment, the program is not accepting new patients. Stay tuned for updates and a comprehensive list of available programs early next year. t Bay Area Cannasseur runs the first Thursday of the month. To send column ideas or tips, email Sari Staver at sfsari@gmail.com.

also working to ensure that the data storage system used for adult shelter reservations “is in compliance with SOGI by either integrating fully over to the ONE system or redesigning the current platform.” The department “expects” that nearly all of its direct services will be SOGI compliant by the end of 2019. It plans to include a comprehensive analysis of HSH direct services in its FY19-20 SOGI report. The department has already observed that transgender and gendernonconforming households “are significantly more likely to be priority status than cisgender people experiencing homelessness and LGBTQ+ people are prioritized in a representative rate,” according to this year’s report. “HSH is pleased that our prioritization method: prioritizing by chronicity of homelessness, barriers to housing, and vulnerability is leading to a significant prioritization of LGBTQ+ people experiencing homelessness beSee page 16 >>

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FGG punts on Hong Kong issues at meeting by Roger Brigham

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he weather in Guadalajara, a city high in the mountains of western Mexico, is generally pleasant and mild, but subject to occasional, unpredictable outbursts of stormy weather, full of thunder, lightning, and torrential downpours. That made it an appropriate location for this year’s Federation of Gay Games membership assembly meeting, which started with forecasts of contentious debate and evolved into a relative calm of courage and coolheadedness. Before the three-day meeting began October 31, several delegates of member organizations, concerned about the social unrest in Hong Kong that has been intensifying during months of sometimes violent pro-democracy protests, were hoping the FGG board of directors would discuss with them back-up plans and a timetable in the event the 2022 Hong Kong Gay Games need to be moved or canceled. (See https://www.ebar.com/news/ news//281922.) But when the agenda was finally announced on October 20, just 10 days in advance of the meeting, two Hong Kong meetings were scheduled between the FGG assembly and the Hong Kong organizers, but none between the FGG membership and the FGG directors. That greatly limited opportunities for internal FGG discussions. During what opportunities for comments and questions there were, a few alarms were sounded. When Hong Kong 2022 spokesman Nigel Lee mentioned a world professional rugby event was still scheduled to be held in Hong Kong, basketball delegate Mark Chambers responded, “The difference with rugby is those athletes are being sponsored to go there. The athletes I am trying to recruit are saving their money now to pay their own way. What if another Tiananmen Square happens? What is the Plan B if something did happen?” Said Laura Moore, an FGG honorary life member and delegate for figure skating, “I have no concern about you canceling the event. I have a fear the registration numbers will not be there.” Hong Kong organizers responded to such concerns with calm resolve to carry on. They acknowledged the troubling demonstrations, social disruptions, and violent confrontations. They also pointed out that many events have been canceled, mostly mainstream events, but many others were not canceled and others still plan to proceed. The FGG directors indicated that they will keep track of events, but as things stand now, they fully intend to carry on and will not spend any bandwidth considering alternative plans.

Paris 2018 finances

The testiest discussions came during the FGG annual financial report. Many organizations came in with feathers already ruffled by Paris 2018’s postgame reports the questioned the value of their contributions and assistance. I wrote about those reports last

summer. (See https://www.ebar.com/ news/news//280113.) It took no great journalistic sleuthing for me to find them: they were emailed to me unsolicited by one of the directors of the Paris 2018 organizing group. The recipients were listed as “undisclosed,” but I often get such emails from the volunteer work I do with several LGBT sports groups, so I did not think much about it. Turns out that neither I nor any of the organizations that responded to me with their comments and rebuttals were ever supposed to see the reports, which were drafted for the FGG board of directors and reportedly had not received final Paris approval. So several organizations came into the meeting already miffed, and emotions were even more heated when they learned that although Paris ended with a sizable surplus, it was not shared with the FGG. In April, Paris 2018 copresident Manuel Picaud told the Bay Area Reporter that the organization had a surplus of almost 150,000 euros ($168,000) and raised another 200,000 euros for its legacy community foundation. At the time, FGG co-president Sean Fitzgerald said division of the surplus was an ongoing discussion. The discussion, it turns out, did not go well with the FGG. There was an ambiguous clause in the license agreement about the post-games division of any surplus. The French interpreted the clause to mean that it was meant only to cover the surplus in the final year rather than after the final year. The final year, of course, is when the host must lay out most of its costs for operations, venues, services, and so forth. There is a legal principle that when a contract is ambiguous, the ambiguity must be interpreted against the party that wrote the contract, in this case the FGG. The federation said it considered suing, but was told by legal advisers it would probably lose. Hence the federation lost out on the bounty it helped produce. The FGG said the ambiguity was corrected in the Hong Kong contract.

Impressions

Here are my impressions and observations from the meeting, based on what went on during sessions and what I heard from informal exchanges with organizers, directors, and delegates: 1) There is organizational agreement on committing fully to Hong Kong, but uncertainty remains whether that will translate into member LGBT sports federations’ ability to recruit sufficient numbers of queer athletes to make the Gay Games look and feel like a Gay Games. There are barely any LGBT sports organizations in Asia to draw on, so regional recruitment will likely be largely dependent on appealing to non-athlete members of the Asian LGBT population and straight allies from the greater Hong Kong

community. Marketing to the global LGBT athletic community may be the biggest challenge Hong Kong organizers will face. When it comes to recreational athlete recruitment, perception is as critical as reality. 2) The interpretation of the Paris contract that only local organizers would enjoy the fiscal rewards from years in which they benefited from the efforts of the FGG and its member organization is illogical, parochial nonsense. It does little to serve the international human rights sports mission to which both organizations were committed. It breeds cynicism in supporters who were already burned by Paris’ snubs of their organizations. Here’s hoping those bad feelings do no sour future host relations. 3) Kudos to Guadalajara for remaining engaged after losing its bid for 2022, and kudos to the FGG for reaching out to LGBT sports representatives from throughout Latin America to bring many of them in to see how the FGG works. That’s the way to build global participation and should yield long-term dividends in building the mission throughout Central and South America. The Latin American outreach was far and away the emotional highlight of a positive, energized annual assembly. 4) Technology – and the skilled volunteers needed to maintain it – remains the biggest logistical challenge for the FGG. The instability and inconsistency of the FGG website and social media platforms was a liability throughout the past quadrennial cycle and must be remedied for this and future cycles. Without them, the ability for the Gay Games to reach and engage athletes across the globe, especially in repressed and underrepresented areas, is critically hampered. 5) A major global event that can regularly draw 10,000 loyal participants should be able to land and hold on to a major sponsor or two – but the Gay Games so far have failed to do just that. There is a renewed effort and vision in the FGG to do so. If the organization succeeds, it will become less reliant on hosts for revenue, be able to provide better support for hosts, and engage communities currently beyond its global reach. Right now the FGG needs tunnel vision to stay focused on technology and sponsorships to ensure long-term success. 6) Think folks have lost interest in the Gay Games and, after the Miami Outgames fiasco, have lost faith in LGBT international multi-sports events? Guess again. The FGG reported 24 cities have already expressed interest in the 2026 Gay Games (the 2022 Gay Games had only 11 suitors). The meeting had 130 attendees representing 23 countries. 7) In 2007, the FGG launched a new organizational structure to address a toxic internal culture and instability in its governing board. Under the new structure, member organizations retained voting rights but surrendered their board status. That created a communications disconnect between the board and the membership, which was reflected going into the meeting by the Hong Kong issue. That issue was obscured by lack of information, communication and transparency. If the federation is to maintain its status as a major force on the LGBT sports world, it must develop more frequent and candid two-way discussions with its membership outside the annual meetings. It ain’t a community if it ain’t talking.

Trans athlete in mediation with powerlifting group Courtesy FGG

Members of the Federation of Gay Games assembly held their annual meeting last week at the Krystal Urban hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Gender Justice says the advocacy group and transgender powerlifter JayCee Cooper have agreed to join in mediation with USA Powerlifter to attempt to resolve the discrimination

complaint the athlete filed earlier this year against the sports group with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. Cooper and Gender Justice filed a complaint in early June with MDHR, saying that USA Powerlifting’s policy, which focuses on testosterone levels in barring athletes from competition, violated state nondiscrimination law on the basis of gender and gender iden-

tity. (See https://www.ebar.com/news/ news//277845.) In a Facebook posting October 30, Gender Justice said the organization “believes firmly that JayCee Cooper – and all transgender athletes – should have an equal opportunity to compete in the sports they love. We welcome this opportunity to meet with MDHR to discuss basic fairness, equality and inclusion in sports.” t

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In a news release, the mayor’s office noted that demand exceeds the number of toys collected each year, especially for older kids. When people are out shopping, they can pick up something extra for a child in need and drop off a new, unwrapped toy at one of many collection sites that will be open until December 9. People can also make a secure monetary donation online. For a list of drop-off locations or to contribute, visit https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/city-of-oaklandcommunity-toy-drive.

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The Department of Public Health was one of six city departments that recently released reports on their collection of SOGI data.

opments identified as LGBTQ. Less than 1% of the heads of households identify as transgender or gendernonconforming, according to the agency’s report. The agency also oversees the leasing of affordable rental units in private housing developments and those built by nonprofits. It asks applicants the SOGI questions and found that 14% of the 94,058 total applications received last fiscal year for new rental or re-rental units came from LGBTQ people. Of the 379 placements for the new and re-rental units, 14% of the primary tenants identified as LGBTQ. Overall, MOHCD determined that across its various programs, “while the proportion of LGBTQ applicants and clients served is significant, the proportion of applicants and clients

that identify as trans or gender-nonconforming could be improved, especially for programs that didn’t serve any trans or gender-nonconforming clients in FY2018-2019.” One suggestion the mayoral office made is the formation of an intradepartmental working group on LGBTQ equity, similar to one it already formed focused on racial equity. It also wants to improve the accuracy of the SOGI data it is collecting and determine if it needs to address “specific cultural or language-related barriers within communities” that result in people declining to answer the SOGI questions. In its six-page report from July, the Department of Public Health noted that both its Population Health Division and the San Francisco Health

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results: In a Seattle City Council race, gay candidate Egan Orion appears to have beaten an incumbent in District 3. Orion, a gay activist and former organizer of Seattle’s Pride parades, told local news outlets that he was “really frustrated” that the corporate giant Amazon supported his campaign through

Holmes-Spencer, a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, who is studying sociology and is dedicated to the health and well-being of African American women in her community; and Bo Hwang, a post-baccalaureate student at UCLA, who hopes to use scientific research to uplift communities of color affected by HIV/AIDS. Other awardees are: D’Andre Manlove, a freshman at Xavier University in New Orleans, who did a yearlong research project on AIDS and the negative stigmas surrounding getting tested; Ariel Sabillon, a senior at Florida State University, who is focusing on HIV anti-criminalization activism; Jennifer Salazar, a junior at the University of Utah, who co-

founded a queer transgender people of color sexual health organization; Ervin Simmons, a senior at Syracuse University, who aspires to earn a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, specializing in HIV-related risk behavior; Jariatu Sta’Llone, a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford, who is pursuing a career in medical journalism; and Cindy Won, a junior at Brown University, who is an emerging infectious diseases scholar working to further her studies on HIV/AIDS. John Cunningham, executive director of the AIDS grove, said that major funding for this year’s scholarships comes from Gilead Sciences and Wells Fargo. t

Network continue to improve their SOGI data collection efforts. It noted that the emergency department at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital would begin asking the SOGI questions this fiscal year. DPH wants to see all of its sites reach a goal of having at least 75% of patients provide the SOGI data this fiscal year. That could be a challenge to meet, since just two of its locations met the 50% threshold set for the previous fiscal year. “As we approach this higher number, we’ll start to examine health outcomes for disparities among minority orientations compared to heterosexually identified patients and among gender expansive patients compared to cisgender patients,” stated the DPH report. “Armed with data for the first time, SFHN can begin to ensure health equity for LGBTQ patients.” Because the Department of Children, Youth and their Families “functions primarily as a funding agency and not as a direct service provider,” it specified in its 11-page report dated October 1 that it does not collect data directly from children, youth, or their families. And due to ongoing issues with asking adolescents the SOGI questions, its data continues to focus on those youth age 18 and older. In particular, the agency is focused on transitional age youth between the ages of 18 and 24, and during the last fiscal year, its grantees served 1,370 such youth who disclosed their sexual orientation. Among those, 17% indicated that they were bisexual, gay/lesbian/ same-gender loving, or questioning/

unsure, and 10% declined to state or did not identify their sexual orientation. Among the 2,841 TAY program participants who answered the gender identity question, 3% identified as “transgender” and about 1% identified as “other.” With estimates for the entire LGBT population of San Francisco ranging from 6% to as high as 12%, the department noted it appears LGBT youth are accessing the programs it funds at rates “higher than might be expected if participants simply reflected a general swath of the area’s adult population.” As it works to improve its SOGI data collection efforts, the department also pledged it will “continue to direct funding toward LGBT communities, as data on TAY program participants suggest that LGBT individuals are more likely to participate in programs and services dedicated to meeting their needs.”

who was appointed after Harvey Milk was assassinated in 1978. “I’m really excited to see the numbers looking so good for Dean. “Harry taught me a lot about how important changing power dynamics and fighting for housing justice is fundamental in fighting for social justice for all disenfranchised communities,” he added. “How political it is to fight for rent control and fundamental change, to re-envision what is possible. He’ll bring activists from all our communities, inspiring them to fight for themselves and for the soul of what matters to this city.” Preston’s party continued beyond midnight, with attendees at the packed lounge remaining upbeat. Over at Church of 8 Wheels, the mood was more somber. Brown’s party broke up around midnight. t

are 765 openly LGBT elected officials nationwide. “Americans are understandably focused on the 2020 presidential and congressional elections, but the LGBTQ candidates who won tonight will arguably have a greater impact on the everyday lives of their constituents,” Parker said Tuesday. t

campaign when Brown acknowledged evicting tenants from a building she formerly owned two decades ago. Preston’s campaign jumped on the issue. “I’m humbled by the turnout and by the enthusiasm of the com-

munity who came out to work for me for nine months,” Brown said as election results continued to come in. “It’s been a community district effort. It made me feel powerful.” The mood was jubilant at Pres-

ton’s party, which took place at Noir Lounge. When the first results came in, Brown was at 51% and Preston was at 41%, but as the numbers evened out to 47% each, the crowd cheered. They cheered even louder as the progressive Preston pulled ahead slightly. “We are unstoppable, another world is possible,” the crowd chanted. “I’m feeling good,” Preston said. “I’m still cautiously optimistic, but there are still a lot of votes to be counted. We always knew early votes would skew toward a more conservative candidate, and that Election Day votes would skew towards a more progressive candidate, but we’re cautiously optimistic.” Brad Chapin, 29, a gay District 5 resident, spoke to the B.A.R. about what Preston means to him. “I’m a longtime member of the Harvey Milk Club and Harry Britt is my mentor,” Chapin said, referring to the gay former supervisor

a political action committee that gave half a million dollars to his bid. In a Texas House district outside Houston, lesbian Eliz Markowitz was the top vote-getter among six candidates and the only Democrat. But now she’ll have to run against just one of those Republicans for the heavily Republican 28th District seat. The runoff will take place in December. Gay former Florida state Representative David Richardson will meet an opponent in a runoff for a seat on the

Miami Beach Commission. Richardson came up just one point short of reaching enough votes to win the seat Tuesday. Richardson won 49% of the vote; his runoff opponent won 38%. In tiny Carrboro, North Carolina, lesbian Mayor Lydia Lavelle won reelection unopposed and gay newcomer Damon Seils won one of three seats on the town’s Board of Alderman–coming in second out of five candidates. In nearby Hillsborough, gay incumbent Matt Hughes came in

first out of four candidates running for three seats on the Board of Commissioners. In Newton, Massachusetts, transgender candidate Holly Ryan was unopposed for a seat on the City Council, making her the first transgender woman to win election to public office in the 11th most populated city in the state. Prior to running for office, Ryan served as the LGBT liaison for two mayors. The Victory Fund estimates there

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previous interview with the B.A.R. “We’ve got to have Muni reliable. I’m not sure if $300 million is going to make it that way.” Though Brown’s victory was not a done deal, her supporters remained optimistic that she would win the election, and remained enthusiastic about her policies. “I support Vallie because I feel very strongly about her values in support of the Navigation Center, low-income housing, fixing Muni, and making it safer for bicyclists,” said Joel Medina, a 38-year-old gay man. “Having Vallie as our supervisor is good for our district. She supports our community 100%. District 5 issues are LGBT issues.” This is Brown’s first run for supervisor. She was appointed to her seat on the board last year after her predecessor, London Breed, became mayor. The race took a turn late in the

The Pedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship, a program of the National AIDS Memorial Grove, has announced that it has awarded 10 undergraduate students a total of $50,000 in financial scholarships for the 2019-2020 school year. Named in honor of the late AIDS educator and reality TV pioneer, the scholarship provides financial support for young leaders who carry the torch of activists like Zamora and mitigate the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in its current form – in ways inspired by their own passions, insights, originality, and conviction.

The students, attending universities in 10 states, will each receive $5,000 to support their educational goals. They will be honored on World AIDS Day at a ceremony at the AIDS grove in San Francisco. The scholarship recipients are: Makayla Dawkins, a freshman at the University of Connecticut, who is majoring in public health and helped create the first gay-straight alliance at her high school; Gray Gautereaux, a senior at Willamette University in Oregon, who is the first three-time recipient of the scholarship and will graduate as an HIV/AIDS community health educator and plans to work covering LGBT issues for the Reno News and Review; Bailey

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ing prioritized for Homeless Response System housing assistance.” The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development disclosed in its 27-page report dated October 28 that 60% of the tenants placed into 95 Laguna, the second wing of the affordable housing development built primarily to house LGBTQ seniors, identified as LGBTQ. According to the report, 7% of the placed tenants identify as transgender/gender-nonconforming, with trans women (5.3% of the placements) leading the group. Meanwhile, 53% of placed tenants identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer, stated the report. The mayoral office also reported that in FY2018-2019 it funded 183 projects providing services to nearly 34,000 clients, of whom approximately 9% identified as LGBTQ. Of those, slightly more that 1% identified as transgender or gender-nonconforming. It also reported that the greatest number of LGBTQ clients were served through its Eviction Prevention program (737 people), followed by Legal Services (683), and then Access to Housing (545). The agency, however, does not know how many LGBTQ people live in the 358 affordable properties it operates in the city, since only new residents were asked the SOGI questions. For the calendar year 2018, it reported that just 2% of the 21,867 heads of households in MOHCD’s affordable multifamily housing devel-

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District 5 Supervisor candidate Dean Preston, left, gets a hug from supporter Basil Saleh at Preston’s election night party in Hayes Valley.

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The SOGI data collection is still not at the point where it needs to be in terms of figuring out baselines for how many LGBT people individual programs funded by the city should be serving, Farley told the B.A.R. Reading through the reports, she said a consistent theme emerges. “The best results tend to be seen in programs that are tailored to the LGBT community. Those programs are serving LGBT folks really well,” she said. “How can those lessons be learned for more general programs so we can hold them accountable to reach a broader community?” t

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weeks ago by Breed, was holding on to a slight lead Wednesday morning over second place finisher Deputy Public

Defender Chesa Boudin. A winner won’t be declared until elections officials count the remaining ballots cast in the coming days. Also to be determined is the race for Breed’s former District 5 seat on the Board of Supervisors, which she stepped down from after her first election as mayor. Her appointee and former aide, Vallie Brown, was trailing her main opponent, tenants rights activist Dean Preston, by 218 votes as of Wednesday morning. Should Preston hold on to his lead in the coming days it will be a stinging blow not only to Brown but also Breed, as he came close to winning the seat in 2016 against Breed. His joining the board would not only give him a bully pulpit to harangue Breed’s housing policies and other actions but also increase the progressive bloc’s majority to nine.

“If Dean Preston wins it really makes things difficult for her at City Hall because he likes to take pot shots at her,” said gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who on Tuesday night held out hope that Brown would win. As for what the outcomes of the DA and District 5 supervisor races will mean for Breed’s ability to lead going forward, Wiener downplayed the impact on the mayor. He said that the city’s mayors historically have not had “coat tails” for other candidates to ride on come Election Day. “It is not about her,” Wiener said of those two contests, noting her securing a full term allows Breed to focus on dealing with not only the city’s housing crisis but also its homeless population and the increased need for mental health services for those living on the streets.

“She now has four more years to execute her plans,” he said. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, part of the progressive majority who often works closely with the mayor on various issues, agreed that Breed’s cementing a full term enables her to now zero in on the “serious challenges” in the city. “I think it allows her to move more aggressively,” said Mandelman. “Now she really needs to make her mark on the city. She has a good head start to do so.” He added that he was confident that Breed would find a way to work with the winners of both the DA and District 5 supervisor contests. “She is going to have to deal with the world she finds herself in,” he told the B.A.R. Tuesday night. “She will figure that out.” t

have facilities to house the district attorney’s office, the public defender’s office, and the sheriff’s department. “There’d be a component there with a residential treatment facility, a mental health facility – they don’t want to call it jail beds but since I’m the sheriff I feel fine calling it jail beds,” Miyamoto said. “That is contemplated to be a build-up completed in 2030, so our challenge now is whatever happens when we move out we have to have something in place right now.” Miyamoto said he doesn’t want to move inmates out of San Francisco in the interim. “The last thing we want to do is move them out of county,” Miyamoto said. “It doesn’t help us at all in terms of what our philosophies are, trying to keep people connected to the community.” Miyamoto said that the department is continuing to become more representative of the communities that it serves.

“One thing I’m very happy with is that our department is extremely diverse. Some of our numbers from just June of this year – we’re at about 72% people of color in our department, which is wonderful” Miyamoto said. “I see that as a strength for us to be reflective of the community. However, some of the segments of that diversity can stand to be increased in our staffing. “We are about 10-15% LGBTQ, obviously we don’t ask people; it’s more anecdotal,” he added. That said, Miyamoto said he’d like to see the gender gap at the sheriff’s department narrowed – the staff is only 14% women, he said. Miyamoto has experience with miscarriages of justice that can come about for minority groups in his own family’s history – his father, along with the rest of the Japanese American side of his family, was interned during World War II.

“We first came over around turnof-the-century and we actually established a really good dry cleaning business, very successful, and we lost everything with the internment,” he said. “But the family actually came back, we re-established and had a moderately successful dry cleaning

business that they jumped back into. “I live in our family home and the dry cleaners is actually still around there. My uncle just recently sold the building,” he added. Miyamoto lives with his wife and his five children in the Laurel Heights neighborhood. t

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concerned that we had a lot of challenges in this city. And there was a need for us to come together to address those challenges. And guess what, that’s exactly what we did with Proposition A, we came together and we did it responsibly.” Also a boost for the freshman mayor were the results in three of the down-ticket races on the offyear ballot involving women Breed had appointed to fill vacancies over the last 15 months. Community college board member Ivy Lee was unopposed and school board member Jenny Lam easily fended off two opponents, based on the unofficial returns. Interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus, appointed to the position mere

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says will help free San Francisco Police Department officers to do other things. “We have the same ideas about where to transfer certain duties,” Montoya said. “He’s a very personable guy. In years past there was kind of an us versus them between the deputies and the police department. Paul is willing to listen.” In the interview, Miyamoto also touched upon the planned changes to the Hall of Justice, the 850 Bryant Street location that houses the city’s courts and two jails. (The district attorney’s office used to be there as well, but recently relocated to 350 Rhode Island Street.) Mayor London Breed announced last month that the Hall of Justice would be closed by 2021 to make way for a justice campus that would also

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City Attorney Dennis Herrera ran unopposed for a sixth term.

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DCCC and is facing a tight race with progressive challenger Dean Preston. Loftus and members of her family took the stage to congratulate campaign workers on a hard-fought race. “We’re cautiously optimistic,” she said. “We have run an incredible campaign. Let me ask you this – who in this room made phone calls for this campaign? Raise your hand. Who in this room knocked on doors for this campaign? Raise your hand. Who in this room called, texted and emailed their friends and said ‘You better vote for Suzy Loftus.’ “This campaign has been all heart and it’s been all San Francisco,” she added. Boudin told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview on Wednesday afternoon that the campaign wasn’t surprised at the margin. “We knew it was going to

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District attorney candidate Chesa Boudin prepares to speak to supporters Tuesday.

be close,” he said. “We’re really excited and humbled that the largest number of San Franciscans picked us as their first choice,” Boudin said. “We were building momentum and we knew more votes would come in on the later side.” He held his Election Night party at the SoMa StrEat Food Park

In the race for public defender, Manohar “Mano” Raju ran unopposed and won with over 99% of the vote, according to unofficial returns. Breed appointed Raju to the position after the death of longtime San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi in February. Adachi is widely credited with increasing the power and prestige of the public defender’s office. Raju will now serve out the remainder of Adachi’s term through 2022. Raju, who has been with the public defender’s office since 2008, said he wanted to cut down on the “macho” atmosphere at the office, increase diversity, and establish an integrity unit to investigate potentially unfair convictions, as the B.A.R. previously reported. t

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NOTICE OF ENTRY OF JUDGMENT ON SISTER-STATE JUDGMENT CASE NUMBER: 34-2018-00233034 Sacramento County Superior Court 720 9th Street Sacramento, CA 95814 Gordon D. Schaber Courthouse Plaintiff: San Tan Heights Homeowners Association, an Arizona nonprofit corporation Defendant: Kyle Stamper, Jr. and Jane Doe Stamper, husband and wife 1. TO JUDGMENT DEBTOR: Kyle Stamper, Jr. and Jane Doe Stamper, husband and wife 2. YOU ARE NOTIFIED a. Upon application of the judgment creditor, a judgment against you has been entered in this court as follows: (1) Judgment creditor: San Tan Heights Homeowners Association, an Arizona nonprofit corporation (2) Amount of judgment entered in this court $7,488.09 b. This judgment was entered based upon a sister-state judgment previously entered against you as follows: (1) Sister state: Arizona (2) Sister-state court: Apache Junction Justice Court, 575 N. Idaho Rd., Apache Junction, AZ; transferred to Pinal County Superior Court, 971 Jason Lopez Cir. Florence, AZ 85132 (3) Judgment entered in sister state on May 26, 2016 (4) Title of case and case number: San Tan Heights Homeowners Association v. Kyle Stamper, Jr. and Jane Doe Stamper; CV2015-1851; CV2016-01724

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Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555285 In the matter of the application of: CHARLES RAMIRO SAENZ, 1336 SOUTH VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHARLES RAMIRO SAENZ, is requesting that the name CHARLES RAMIRO SAENZ, be changed to RAMIRO SAENZ TEJADA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 3rd of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555166 In the matter of the application of: TEREZA LEMOS WILLIS, 201 8TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TEREZA LEMOS WILLIS, is requesting that the name TEREZA LEMOS WILLIS AKA TEREZA ASSIS LEMOS AKA TEREZA ASSIS WILLIS AKA TEREZA LEMOS, be changed to JULIANA DEMICAEL. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, on the 3rd of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555281 In the matter of the application of: MEGAN E. INTOCCIA, 2524 FRANKLIN ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MEGAN E. INTOCCIA is requesting that the name MEGAN E. INTOCCIA, be changed to MEGAN INTOCCIA HAPGOOD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 26th of November 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555282 In the matter of the application of: CURTIS HAPGOOD TONGUE, 2524 FRANKLIN ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CURTIS HAPGOOD TONGUE, is requesting that the name CURTIS HAPGOOD TONGUE, be changed to CURTIS TONGUE HAPGOOD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 26th of November 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038820400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HARD HITTING CLEANING SERVICES, 820 PRESIDIO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARCUS GAINES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038820700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ADVANCED AQUATICS 888, 140 ANZA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JERAD LEONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/08/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038799000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAPI FEET, 2477 CHESTNUT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JANELLE TATE GREEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/13/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/18/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038808900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BOOGIE DAWG, 1888 GENEVA AVE #1712, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHEILA K. LANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038816900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLEAN BAY AREA, 3661 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDUARDO ISAAC DUTSON-GUTIERREZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038821900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EPIC AUTOMOTIVE, 341 10TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed WT MANAGEMENT INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/10/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038811500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WEI GUO HOUSE, 3751 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GS RIVERSIDE GRILL (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/19.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038449000

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-032194300

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: PLAIN & SIMPLE, 149 ADDISON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by MELVINA M. HILL. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/13/09.

OCT 17, 24, 31, NOV 07, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555303 In the matter of the application of: KRYSTAL KOBASIC BJUHR, 3626 25TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KRYSTAL KOBASIC BJUHR, is requesting that the name KRYSTAL KOBASIC BJUHR AKA KRYSTAL CAROL KOBASIC, be changed to KRYSTAL CAROL KOBASIC. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, on the 17th of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DIVIS REFEXOLOGY MASSAGE AND SPA, 773 DIVISADERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LINH AI DUONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INCMEDIA; BALBOA BUSINESS CENTER; INQ; INQMEDIA; ONE CHOICE TRAVEL; AZN EVENTS; ZENNHA; INQCOM, 3739 BALBOA ST #164, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed IVAN T. NGUYENVU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/09/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038814300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAFEWAY GLOBAL EDUCATION, 2309 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LEI LI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/02/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/02/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEW PEW GAMES, 460 BRANNAN ST #77744, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUYI ZHANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEW PEW GAMES, 1 BLUXOME ST #214, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUYI ZHANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038827500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZAD ACUPUNCTURE, 2211 POST ST #204, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHALA HASHEMIZAD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/17/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038824500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHOROS CHARAS-DESTINATION, 1427 24TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SWATHI LAKSHMANAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038815200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHINATOWN PRETTY, 1314 FULTON ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94117. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed ANDRIA LO & VALERIE LUU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/03/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038825500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLOOM BLOW DRY BAR, 819 ULLOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BC BEAUTY SERVICES GROUP INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038824200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE NINES, 2509 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FROM GIRLS, FOR GIRLS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/14/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038824400

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: ALLEY HOUSE, 3751 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by GS RIVERSIDE GRILL (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/28/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A TABLE, 4843 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed A TABLE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/19.

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OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038828800

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACTIVE ASCENSIONS, 236 W.PORTAL AVE, #192, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ACTIVE ASCENSION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/30/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/17/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUGFUL, 823 KANSAS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PARASKEVAS APOSTOLOPOULOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038823100

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038834000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YASMIN, 799 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ELTAWIL BROTHERS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/03/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/11/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038831500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CACHESTARS GLOBAL, 1300 GILMAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HERALD DANILO BERMUDEZ AGUILERA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038832000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MATCHA CAFE MAIKO, 756 GRANT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TMC VENTURES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/31/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FEI FEI DAYCARE, 460 36TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LIFEI BIAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038831400

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038833300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MATCHA CAFE MAIKO, 3251 20TH AVE, #250K, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TMC VENTURES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/31/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038831200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MATCHA CAFE MAIKO, 1581 WEBSTER ST, #175, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TMC VENTURES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/31/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/19.

OCT 24, 31, NOV 07, 14, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555316 In the matter of the application of: TIMOTHY DONALD ARMSTRONG, 701 TAYLOR ST #509, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TIMOTHY DONALD ARMSTRONG, is requesting that the name TIMOTHY DONALD ARMSTRONG AKA TIMOTHY D. ARMSTRONG AKA TIMOTHY ARMSTRONG AKA TIM ARMSTRONG, be changed to TYMN ARMSTRONG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 10th of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555322 In the matter of the application of: ASHLEY LAUREN NELSON-HORNSTEIN, 255 STEINER ST #501, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ASHLEY LAUREN NELSONHORNSTEIN, is requesting that the name ASHLEY LAUREN NELSON-HORNSTEIN, be changed to ASHLEY LAUREN NELSON. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 12th of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555331

In the matter of the application of: ROSE KHALLOUF & LEO DETOMASO, 1595 33RD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ROSE KHALLOUF & LEO DETOMASO, is requesting that the name OLIVIA KHALLOUF DETOMASO, be changed to OLIVIA ROSE DETOMASO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, on the 17th of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555330 In the matter of the application of: PHUOC MINH NGUYEN, 201 TURK ST #301, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner PHUOC MINH NGUYEN, is requesting that the name PHUOC MINH NGUYEN AKA DAVID PHUOC MINH NGUYEN be changed to DAVID PHUOC MINH NGUYEN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514, on the 17th of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038829300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MITOMOTO PHOTOGRAPHY, 1508 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAHDE MITOSINKA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038842900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SRI PUBLIC RELATIONS, 388 MARKET ST #1300, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SRI LAKSHMI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/27/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038839800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLA COMMERCIAL CLEANING SVC, 138 GAMBIER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUIS ALFONSO CHANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PARTNERS, 3896 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed PAUL EDWARD GREER, PAUL CURTIS SUGIMOTO & RICHARD CHARLES TUCKER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038824600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VANYSOL, 2905 16TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed VALERIA GALVEZ, MARISOL PRADO & NANCI SANCHEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/11/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038828300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZEBRA, 149 NEW MONTGOMERY ST #303, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TURBO TECHNOLOGY, INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/17/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038832800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEUNG’S WHITE CRANE ASSOCIATION, 32 SAINT LOUIS ALLEY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LEUNG’S BROTHERS INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/01. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038831000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ISABELLA’S SHUTTLE, 1181 GILMAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed COSME MOLINA & REINA MOLINA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/21/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/21/19.

OCT 31, NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-029691000

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DONALD EDWARD STEVENS IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-19-302700

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DONALD EDWARD STEVENS. A Petition for Probate has been filed by KATHLEEN M. STEVENS in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that KATHLEEN M. STEVENS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: November 26, 2019, 9:00 am, Dept. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: LAUREN T. CORMAN #292981, MICHAEL L. CORMAN #70495, THE CORMAN LAW OFFICES, APC, 740 FRONT ST #200, SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060; Ph. (831) 427-2414.

NOV 07, 14, 21, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-555339 In the matter of the application of: MARIA GUADALUPE DE LEON, 1785 MCKINNON AVE #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MARIA GUADALUPE DE LEON, is requesting that the name KAYLEE MARIE DE LEON, be changed to KAYLEE MARIE RODEGEB DE LEON. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 19th of December 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 07, 14, 21, 28, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038853800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RFR PRODUCTION, 837 GEARY ST #306, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHACRIT TAECHOTIROTE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/19.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN GATE DISEGNO, 5 ISADORA DUNCAN LN, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PEDRO NEL OSPINA HINCAPIE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/31/19.

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: FIVE STAR NAIL & SPA, 2920 DIAMOND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by CUONG VIEN LA. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/08/06.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RAPID REGISTRATION SERVICES, 1530 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROBIN FRALEY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/19.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUME, 927 LARKIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRANDT HEWITT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JUST LIKE MOM PRESCHOOL, 2336 21ST AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JULIYA CHERDAK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/02. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MELA MELO, 3301 CLAY ST #204, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MELISSA DOERKEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/19.

NOV 07, 14, 21, 28, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038851500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VELA TAX & ACCOUNTING, 43 ELLERT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARLOS RONALD VELA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/31/19.

NOV 07, 14, 21, 28, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038840700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAYES PIZZA, 2077 HAYES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARLOS ZARATE AMBROCIO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOODFELLA’S PIZZERIA AND GRILL, 377 BAY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed HAMED SALHI & FARIDAHMAD BAKHTARY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/10/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO SPCA, 201 ALABAMA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SF SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/19.

NOV 07, 14, 21, 28, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038846700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DCCX BRAND; NETZERO EXTRACT SERVICES, 1500 BURKE AVE, UNIT A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed THE BURKE GROUP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/19.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HI HO SILVER SAN FRANCISCO, 1904 FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VICTORIA DUNHAM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/19.

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: AWAKENED SELF, 109 STONECREST DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by SANTIAGO ROCHA. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/26/19.

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hey were ready. Nothing short of a fire that could engulf Berkeley would have kept Cal Performances from presenting the Russian ballet “La Bayadere” in Zellerbach Hall last week. The Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg opened last Wednesday night to a packed house, with a sure back-up of electricity and many VIPs in the house. See page 21 >>

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Me,” with Jason Moran and his band accompanying. Plus Smokey Robinson, Eartha Kitt, Aretha Franklin, and many more. The screening was preceded by a short set from Bay Area musician Fantastic Negrito, who soulfully sang what his grandmother calls “black roots music”; and was followed by a Q&A with director Williams and producer Lisa Cortes.

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ut There had a real “filmie” kind of week, including full immersion in the world of immortal filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola at Café Zoetrope, enjoying two knockout films in current release, and attending opening night of SFFILM’s 2019 “Doc Stories” festival. Director Roger Ross Williams was in the house when “The Apollo” opened SFFILM’s “Doc Stories” weekend last Friday at the Castro Theatre. The nonfiction film traces the history of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, studded with clips of great African American musicians and entertainers who have performed there. As Williams said from the Castro stage, it was most appropriate to show his film, “about a temple of music, here in a temple of cinema.” “The Apollo” is worth seeing just for its samples of Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit,” James Brown electrifying the audience, and Ella Fitzgerald winning an Amateur Night competition in 1934. We also got to see President Barack Obama singing “I’m so in love with you” from the Apollo stage, then admitting he was no competition for Al Green; and rehearsals for, then a snippet from a staging of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and

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very personal to me,” said Coppola. “It is a monument to my joy that it exists.” We enjoyed classic Italian repast there, served family-style: fresh burrata e prosciutto, porcini mushrooms and broccoli rabe sautéed in olive oil with garlic and shallots, tiramisu with layers of mascarpone drenched in espresso. The Coppola wine flowed, and we love it that Francis names his potent potables after his loved ones: “Eleanor” for his red wine blend, “Sofia” for his brut rose. If OT made a wine, we’d name it “Pepi,” a pinot noir: light, trim, but dark and peppery. For more information, visit www.cafezoetrope.com.

The historic Café Zoetrope in Heart & Seoul Director Rupert Goold’s La GarNorth Beach, owned by Francis land vivisection “Judy” is worth seeFord Coppola, is celebrating its 20th ing for Renee Zellweger’s affecting anniversary this month. Out There portrayal alone, if not for her tepid was invited to an intimate dinner vocalizing; but also for its bringing party in honor of Coppola world. back to life the men in Judy’s life: FFC was not there (his winery was Finn Wittrock’s slick & slippery in the fire zone), but we got to visit Mickey Deans, Rufus Sewell’s dark his private screening room and the & deep Sidney Luft, and Gus Barry editing lair where he worked on playing Mickey Rooney as sex obclassic films like “The Godfather” ject! The power of illusions! and “Apocalypse Now.” Director Bong Joon Ho’s “ParaCafé Zoetrope’s week-long celsite” truly is one of the best films of ebration will feature themed menus, the year. It’s not only a spirited comhappy hour specials and limitededy of social manners and modern edition giveaways. Each day life, and a gripping crime story and of festivities is inspired horror film, it’s the best cinematic by a different Greek demonstration we’ve seen yet of what muse: Mon., Nov. happens when Grotesque Inequali18: Urania, the Muse ties of capital and wealth distort a of Astronomy; Tues., society. It’s South Korea’s cautionary Nov. 19: Melpomene, tale for Trumpian America.t the Muse of Tragedy; Wed., Nov. 20: Erato, the Muse of Erotic Poetry; Thurs., Nov. 21: Terpsichore, the Muse of Music and Dancing (with live music); Fri., Nov. 22: Thalia, the Muse of Comedy and Idyllic Poetry; Sat., Nov. 23: Clio, the Muse of History; and Sun., Nov. 24: Polymnia, the Muse Courtesy Café Zoetrope of Sacred Hymns and Harmony (with a San A charming corner of Café Zoetrope, in Francis Ford Coppola’s Sentinel Building in Francisco choir). “Café Zoetrope is North Beach.

Children of a detainee that day, her two search of cheap booze and rent American-born girls, and sometimes the relative kids, 12-year-old with a chip on his shoulder, along daughter Itan with a guilty conscience for having and 6-year-old unwittingly assisted in the death of son Neto, arrive their dad in a hot stretch of desert home to discover between the Mexican border and a their mom misssafe U.S. berth. ing and their “Collisions” paints a compelling modest flat filled portrait of two young Americans with broken furgrowing up fast and struggling to niture. survive unreliable adults and poThe kids are litically driven policies that see the swept into the children as collateral damage. As custody of a with many low-budget productions Mitchell Street Pictures well-meaning ($300,000 in this case), a great script Evencio (Jesse Garcia) must take care of two but ineffectual is essential. Director Levien, himself children when their mother is detained by ICE in caseworker from an immigrant from New Zealand, director Richard Levien’s “Collisions.” Child Protecconcocted a gem with the help of tive Services, veteran writer Malin Alegria. Anwho delivers by David Lamble other nod goes to Oakland-based them into the chaotic world of director of photography Frazer ay Area director Richard Levitheir truck-driver uncle Evencio Bradshaw, who co-produced. en’s “Collisions” opens Friday (emotional roller-coaster turn by Warning: “Collisions” comes at the Roxie Theater. It’s a rippedveteran actor Jesse Garcia). As the with an intentionally open-ended from-the-headlines drama that kids discover, Evencio is a man of third act. Audiences who have been overcomes its dime-store budget to many faces and moods: sometimes pulling for these characters may create a gripping, sometimes funny the hardworking long-haul driver, leave the theater both moved and account of two children trapped sometimes the party-down oaf in shaken.t in the Orwellian world of Trump’s immigrant-bashing policies. The story kicks off early one morning in San Francisco’s Mission District. A young Mexican immigrant mom, Yoana (Ana de la This week, find David Lamble’s survey of the Reguera), answers a knock on the door only to be arrested by US imSan Francisco South Asian Film Festival, Bollywood migration police (ICE) and taken and Beyond, online at www.ebar.com. to an ICE holding facility. Later

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Transcendental beauty of Ives symphonies by Philip Campbell

Ives’ Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting,” and Symphony No. 4, with Selected American Hymns, on the in-house SFS Media label. Available as 5.1 surround-capable SACD, digital download, and streaming via major retailers, MTT’s latest release of masterworks by “the George Washington of American music”

sets an impressive seal on a life-long quest. After 25 fabulous years with the San Francisco Symphony, a major part of MTT’s own legacy is a prizewinning SFS Media discography. “The Mahler Project” alone would be enough to secure his place in recording history, but other discs featuring contemporary composers and 20th-century mavericks such as Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Edgard Varese have proved likewise rewarding. The setting by Henry Brant of Ives’ Piano Sonata No. 2 as “A Concord Symphony,” recorded with Copland’s modernist Organ Symphony for SFS Media, was another smashing example of just how persuasive MTT and his hearty band can be when sharing an adventure. A selection of hymn tunes that served as inspiration for Ives, including “Nearer My God to Thee,”

dancer (the bayadere), dedicated to the divinity, who falls sincerely and forever in love with a young warrior, who swears undying love to her but is forced by the Rajah to marry the princess, his daughter. In the full version, the gods punish the Rajah and reunite the true lovers; for reasons too complex to recount, that last act, with the collapsing temple, the staircase to Nirvana, the apotheosis of the young lovers, was not presented here. The ballet doesn’t need the finale, since the last act is so staggeringly impressive in showing their true love we can get by without seeing the comeuppance staged. But other variants of the ballet exist with a restored last act, one recently shown in Berlin. One test of a classic is this: Can it deliver something of great importance, even when truncated, from generation to generation? Even more important, can it make the next gen-

eration understand how their parents or grandparents thought and felt about the issues that concern them most? And can it be that a ballet which uses no words at all can handle human issues, and issues at their most abstract? Maria Khoreva, the 19-year-old ballerina who starred in Thursday night’s production, handNatasha Razina ily demonstrated how to make it clear that a sexual advance is not Cal Performances presented Mariinsky wanted. Long before she had to Ballet and Orchestra performing “La push the High Brahman away, Bayadère” in Zellerbach Hall. stamp her foot, and hold her hand up in the universal gesture the lower ribs pulled in. All of this is of “Stop right there!,” her whole visible, since her costume bares the body had been saying “No” for five midriff from the pecs to the hips. minutes. Every cell in her body was She’s an Indian temple-dancer, after shrinking back and away from him all, and the goods are very much on before she started stepping backdisplay. The High Brahman is writhwards away from him. First the ing in torments of desire he is trying breast-bone pulled back, then the to suppress; he’s knows he’s wrong chin, the navel pulled to the spine,

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They had brought 200 personnel with them, orchestra and dancers. It was a colossal production. Firstnight was a little iffy; everyone was still getting their bearings. House lights came up unexpectedly. The ballerina Ekaterina Kondaurova (Nikia) and her partner Andrei Yermakov (Solor) had little chemistry, while the seconda donna (Yekaterina Chebykina, as Gamzatti) could not decide when to finish her pirouettes. But by the finale, Kondaurova was at full-blaze ballerina, and Yermakov staggeringly brilliant in his first solo. With the stunningly clear dancing by the corps, they put the show over the top. By Thursday, the engine was firing on all cylinders, and the whole show went like gangbusters. It’s a story, set in India, of a temple

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“There is a Fountain,” “Beulah Land” and “Sweet By and By,” precedes each symphony on the new disc. SFS Chorus director Ragnar Bohlin adds fascinating context, and the singers sound rich and expressive as ever. The amazing dynamic range of the recording puts listeners in the best seats in Davies Symphony Hall. Charming and immediately accessible, Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting,” is an example of Ives’ mastery of tone painting. From nostalgic warmth to exuberance and finally “Communion,” the Third is an irresistible look at the composer’s relatively uncomplicated poetic side. The Symphony No. 4 is another matter altogether. Here is a big, splashy, sometimes chaotic collage of everything iconoclastic about him. Some detractors have called him out for his subtle and not so

subtle misogyny, homophobia, and occasional braggadocio, but that is Ives the man. Historians will continue to debate, but consensus on Ives the composer is as complex as the music. For MTT, the verdict is clear: “At its core, the music of Charles Ives is an expression of the heart and soul of America.” The pageantry of the Fourth encapsulates everything deep and provocative in Ives’ uniquely American philosophy. The SFS performance is both a joyride and a meditation. The massed forces onstage tick every box, making miraculous and highly entertaining sense of each piece of the puzzle. MTT calls Ives “America’s greatest composer” and a poet/philosopher “on par with Walt Whitman, Emerson, and the Transcendentalists that he so admired.” Judging by the sheer power and haunting beauty of the new release, I’m inclined to agree.t

but can’t stop himself. By contrast, every breath she takes is open and large when, alone at last, she’s facing Solor (Vladimir Shklyarov), the matinee-idolhandsome premier danseur playing the Warrior prince, who loves her. The openness of his heart to her was visible at his entrance, when he ran across the stage looking for – we did not yet know whom, but he ran like the wind, which tells you everything about the spirit that moves him: “So light a step will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint.” This ballet is about the opposition of lust and love, and about a woman’s right to choose, and of a man’s, as well. This is established from his entrance and confirmed by hers, and it’s a truth that can never be enough confirmed, See page 23 >>

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Gay, Latin & wrongfully convicted by Victoria A. Brownworth

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he closet is a horrible place, and no one should have to live there. We were reminded of this yet again after watching the Halloween episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (“SVU”), where the scares were all too real. This is the historic 21st season of what is now the longest-running non-animated prime time series – only “The Simpsons” has been on longer, at 31 seasons. “SVU,” set and filmed in New York, just got only its second out gay character in all that time. Recurring, but we’ll take it. ADA Isaiah Holmes (played by out gay actor Wentworth Miller, whom you have also seen lately on “Madam Secretary” as an evil Republican heading a committee investigating Pres. McCord) declares he’s gay in a throwaway line during the episode, actually well done: no big coming out scene, just “so you thought since I’m gay, I would be interested in this case” nonchalance. But the meat of the story is an all-too-real parallel to the Central Park Five. Two young Latinx guys were railroaded into confessing to a crime they didn’t commit, the horrific rapes and murders of one of the

convicted men’s mother and sister. Guillermo Diaz (“Scandal”) plays the man whose family was murdered. The twist in the case is he’s gay, and he and the other convicted man, Ricardo (who died of AIDS, which he got in prison) were both at a popular gay cruising beach together when the crime occurred. But neither could reveal where they really were for fear of reprisal from their respective families and the criminal justice system. As a result, the two men spent 16 years in prison for a crime they did not commit while the actual (white) murderer-rapist went free, and continued to assault women and girls. The episode also details with grim specifics what happens to out gay men in prison. It’s horrifying. The episode is tragic and highlights the abject racism with which police often proceed in cases with brown and black people, as well as the terror of the closet and the sexual violence that goes unaddressed in America’s prisons. Diaz, who is also openly gay, said of his background, which paralleled that of his “SVU” character, “I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That façade, of being somebody I’m really not just to protect myself, definitely helped with acting.”

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When Ruby Rose (“Orange Is the New Black”) clinched the coveted role of lesbian superhero Kate Kane, aka “Batwoman,” there were complaints that Rose, who came out as a lesbian at 12 and identifies as gender neutral, was not queer enough for the role, whatever that means. At the time Rose said, “I really wanted to do the role. It’s a dream role. I’ve said it before, but I’m not going to be on my deathbed wishing that people on the internet liked me more.” Well, they might like Rose more after last week’s episode of “Batwoman” where Kate was all-in for a lesbian sex scene. Kate and Reagan (Brianne Howey) wake up in bed together after Kate asked Reagan (please don’t name your lesbian characters Reagan, ok?) out in the previous episode. In the scene, Kate and Reagan kiss passionately before being interrupted by Kate’s phone. Here’s the thing: They. Were. Naked. If you are naive enough to innocently say, “Of course they were naked, they are in bed having sex,”

you haven’t seen what happens when lesbians are in bed having sex on TV. Cue the bras, tank-tops, T-shirts. Even on cable and Netflix. We caught a few responses on Twitter to the scene, to which we nodded agreement. One woman said she was so shocked to see two women in bed kissing “without like full-body ski suits” that she had to pause the scene for the effect to take hold. It was pretty amazing to see lesbians having sex without their clothes on that we hope to see more (literally and metaphorically) of this overt lesbianism in “Batwoman”’s future. While there have been some slamming episodes of our fave shows recently, the sad fact is TV is fast approaching that uncomfortable period between Halloween and Christmas where series are propelling toward their season finales, then the Endless Holiday Specials start in earnest. While Christmas is still seven weeks away, the decorating and cooking shows are skipping right past Thanksgiving, because this is the most moneymaking time of the year. If you want to be the best holiday baker in America, the baking shows are going all-in on cakes, cupcakes, cookies and Christmas confections. Plus these shows are so gay it is always both a treat and a relief. Spoiler alert: the “Great British Baking Show” had a queer winner as the season ended this week. Let us rejoice and be glad in the land, and look forward to some more gay and queer-adjacent winners of upcoming cooking contest shows. Baking and cooking shows are the gayest spots on the tube, and it is frankly a relief to know there is somewhere to turn while the “Will & Grace” principals are feuding and “Modern Family” is ending (although it’s time). Even the baking shows with kids are gay as can be. There is something delightful about seeing kids you just know are going to be flaming queens in another couple years talking about their royal icing and crumb coats while swishing through the kitchen. Bless the parents who aren’t sticking these boys in conversion therapy and are unafraid to see them queer up the cuisine. Whenever we need to truly chill, we head to Food Network, and are never disappointed. This is Xanax for the soul. This past week we needed a passel of Xanax. Watching Rep. Katie Hill give her final speech on the House floor filled us with a sense of loss tempered with outrage. The sexualassaulter-in-chief is in the White House, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas are on the Supreme Court for life, Duncan Hunter is running for re-election, but Hill, the only out bisexual in the House and a legit rising star among Democrats, has to resign because her soon-tobe-ex-husband was so jealous of her relationship with another woman that he leaked a bazillion purloined revenge-porn photos of her to rightwing media. Hill said,“I came here to give a voice to the unheard in the halls of power. I wanted to show young people, queer people, working people, imperfect people that they belong here because this is the people’s house. I fell short of that, and I’m sorry.” Hill’s speech was one of the most dramatic TV events of the week. It was powerful, meaningful and self-deprecating, while also calling out Trump, his cohort and the slutshaming and queer-bashing that forced her resignation. She mentioned queer people more than once. Hill said, “I am leaving now because of a double standard. I am leaving because I didn’t want to be

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Guillermo Diaz plays a closeted gay Latin man who is wrongfully convicted on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”

used by shameless operatives for the dirtiest gutter politics that I’ve ever seen, and the right-wing media to drive clicks and expand their audience by distributing intimate photos of me taken without my knowledge, let alone my consent, for the sexual entertainment of millions.” The fact is, lesbian sexuality (not erasing Hill’s bisexuality here, but we all know this is only a story because the person Hill was having a relationship with is another woman), has always been a staple of straight male pornography. So when Hill said, “I am leaving because of a misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse, this time with the entire country watching,” she was spot-on. The entire House should have risen up and refused to accept her resignation. But while that might have happened on “Madam Secretary,” it did not happen as we watched Hill on TV. Real life is messy, ugly and incalculably homophobic, biphobic, transphobic, and we who are LGBTQ all have to live with that fact every day. Hill is just another casualty. We used to tout the “news you’re not seeing” in this column regularly. One story that failed to be reported as a headline or even a minute on the national news this past week was the new study from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law about LGBT poverty. We mention it here because according to the study, LGBT people are way more likely to be poor than straight cisgender people. But even within the LGBT, bisexual women like Hill have the highest rates of poverty, at nearly 30%. Hill’s story made us wonder how many times bi women are forced out of jobs like she was. You can read the entire 45-page study online at the Williams Institute. It’s shocking. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the sole guest on the Halloween episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and it was one of the best political hours on the tube we have seen. Unlike some politicians, Pelosi doesn’t do a lot of TV. Colbert has made taking down Trump his main shtick. Which made for a perfect fit. It was an exclusive interview. Pelosi came directly from the historic vote in the impeachment resolution (232196) to probe Trump’s alleged quid pro quo in pushing Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. “I want to thank you for your patriotism,” Pelosi told Colbert. “This is a sad thing for our country. We do this prayerfully, and with great seriousness. Nobody goes to Congress to impeach a president. You’ve had your fun with the policy and the personality and the rest, and that’s about the election. The patriotism, the Constitution, is really what impeachment is about. The most important thing for the American people to realize is: Nobody is above the law.” As she detailed her initial reluctance to instigate the inquiry, she explained that it’s not good for the country, but that Trump forced everyone’s hand. “He jeopardized the integrity of our elections, the heart of our democracy,” she said, “and

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in doing so, he possibly violated his oath of office to preserve the Constitution.” Pelosi talked with facility about Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, the first Continental Congress, signing the Constitution, and how it was determined that America would be a republic, not a monarchy, and that she and Congress were tasked with protecting the republic. The hour was full of civics lessons and true sobriety. Pelosi has said all along that this is a sobering moment for the country, that she regrets that Trump has pushed us to this point. But there was some acerbic wit from both Pelosi and Colbert as well. Pelosi also gave an impassioned speech about what the Democrats are trying to do in Congress while the Republicans complain. Chief among the things she enumerated were that the Democratic House has passed gun control and the Equality Act, but Mitch McConnell is holding these and other legislation up in the Senate. Watching Pelosi talk with such intensity about the importance of LGBTQ equality on national TV was powerful and resonant. You can watch the entire interview at CBS. com. Halloween night was big for getting all the women men in power call witches onto the tube. Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea were on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” to promote the publication of their new “The Book of Gutsy Women” that the two have co-written. Noah cut right to the chase, asking Hillary what everyone wants to know: “I have to ask you a question that has been plaguing me for a while: how did you kill Jeffrey Epstein?” The audience and both Clintons laughed wildly. Hillary has long been accused in right-wing conspiracies of murdering her rivals. No one has ever explained how Monica Lewinsky and Trump have escaped this serial killing. Noah nailed the crazy aspect with his follow-up statement, saying what so many of us have thought. “Because you’re not in power but you have all the power,” Noah said, adding, “I really need to understand how you do what you do, because you seem to be behind everything nefarious, yet you do not use it to become president.” For her part Hillary said it was a “constant surprise to me” that she continued to be the subject of these theories. “The things they say, and now, of course, it’s on steroids with being online,” she said, “are so ridiculous, beyond any imagination that I could have. Yet they are so persistent in putting forth these crazy ideas and theories. Honestly, I don’t know what I ever did to get them so upset.” Well, you said that thing 25 years ago about not being willing to “stay home and bake cookies and stand by your man like Tammy Wynette,” and it just took off from there. Meanwhile, Chelsea said she had read while campaigning for her mother in 2016 that one voter thought Hillary was a better candidate but could not discount that he had heard she had murdered more than 50 people. “He said, somewhat nonchalantly, ‘I don’t think that she murdered 50, but, like, what if she murdered two?’” Chelsea said. “So you just think it’s like this constant erosion of truth and sanity.” There is a whole lot of that these days, on the tube and off. You can watch the entire interview, which is pretty fantastic, at Comedy Central or on YouTube. So for the calm before the impeachment storm, the occasional live breast sighting in Batwoman’s bed, and those brazen baby gays on the baking shows glittering the place with their nascent gayness, you know you really must stay tuned.t

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November 7-13, 2019 • Bay Area Reporter • 23

Robert Townsend, self-made storyteller by Jim Gladstone

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hooting hoops with gang members in a Chicago housing project. Performing Shakespeare for an audience of pimps. Making trouble on the set of classic gang flick “The Warriors.” Working with lifelong idols like Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll. Robert Townsend, who helped pioneer 1980s independent cinema with “Hollywood Shuffle,” has a file cabinet’s worth of autobiographical anecdotes. Being a well-known actor-director, he’s told them hundreds of times. He’s woven them into stand-up comedy routines, recounted them on talk shows and press interviews, and served them up on the lecture circuit. But unlike many celebrities who replay their life story’s greatest hits with the automated efficiency of a jukebox, Townsend spins even his oldest oldies fully juiced. In his generous, joyful solo performance “Living the Shuffle,” running at the Marsh in Berke-

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Actor, director, and filmmaker Robert Townsend offers a one-man ride through show business in “Living the Shuffle” at The Marsh Berkeley.

ley on weekends through Dec. 1, Townsend’s tales don’t feel so much remembered as relived before the audience’s eyes. He’s a physically confident actor, deliberately prowling and pacing the small stage as he chronicles his path from innercity childhood to showbiz success. Townsend’s elastic voice brings a

surprising array of supporting characters into the spotlight with him, from Alfred Hitchcock to Eddie Murphy. “Look, I’m a natural performer,” he says. “When I’m directing a TV show, I’m making the crew laugh really hard. When I’m pitching to a network or a studio, it’s a storytelling performance.” During both his show and an interview with the Bay Area Reporter after a preview performance, Townsend, 62, exudes well-earned pride in his career and his championing of other African-American talents. But “Living the Shuffle” never feels like auto-hagiography. “I’m telling stories I’ve told my whole life,” says Townsend, “but I’ve tried to structure it in a way that lets the audience in. It’s not about watching me, it’s about feeling these experiences with me. “I really want it to feel inspirational to a new generation of creative people,” Townsend says of the show, which is a testament to self-

determination. “Never see obstacles. See opportunities.” Townsend says he felt a particular satisfaction when the first Marsh preview audience spontaneously applauded as he began to tell a behind-the-scenes story about “The Five Heartbeats,” his 1991 feature film about a 1960s R&B vocal group modeled on The Temptations. “The studio didn’t know how to market it, and it wasn’t a hit in theaters. But people started to discover it after it began playing on television, and it just had this incredible wordof-mouth. Now over 300 million people have shared clips on social media.” In “Living the Shuffle,” Townsend waxes nostalgic about growing up nicknamed “TV Guide” because he was known for memorizing the complete evening schedules for the three channels available on his family’s set, along with the dialogue from many of the shows. But today, he’s an advocate for the proliferation of media outlets, having created work

for platforms from MTV, where he directed a young Beyonce in 2001’s “Carmen: A Hip-Hopera”; to TBS, directing episodes of Tracy Morgan’s “The Last OG”; to MBC, HBO, the WB, Netflix and The Black Family Channel, where he served as President of Production for four years beginning in 2003. “The beautiful thing about where we are with content and social media,” says Townsend, who recalls being told in the 1980s that “Hollywood only makes one black film a year,” “is that the best things really do have a chance to rise to the top. There are things you’re going to find out about and watch because of your friends, family, people you really trust. A movie studio can’t buy that kind of word-of-mouth.”t Living the Shuffle, Fridays-Sundays through Dec. 1. The Marsh, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. Tickets ($35-$100): (415) 6410235, www.themarsh.org.

Ganache-ing my teeth by Jim Gladstone

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ou’ve got to follow the instructions,” explains Della, the cheery proprietor of a small-town North Carolina Bakery, sharing her philosophy in the opening moments of “The Cake,” now at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, through Dec. 1. From Della’s perspective, this means sticking strictly to recipes, whether the ones for cakes found in a cookbook, or the ones for living found in the Good Book. A devout Southern Baptist, Della (J.J. Van Name, magnetic throughout) finds herself on the horns of a devilish dilemma when Jen (Jensen Power), the daughter of her late best friend, returns home from New York to announce her impending hometown nuptials and asks if Della will bake the wedding cake for her and her bride-to-be. Della’s refusal sets the story in motion.

Inspired by the Supreme Court case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, playwright Bekah Brunstetter, best known for her work on television’s “This Is Us,” aims to combine comedy and drama in a toothsome, bittersweet confection. But rather than effectively layering those flavors, both the script and director Tracy Ward’s production tend to muddle them. Macy (Asia Jackson), Jen’s fiancé, is a fired-up writer for Jezebel and HuffPo. In her first scene, she lets Della know that she won’t watch food TV “because it fetishizes an industry that’s killing hundreds of thousands of individuals,” and won’t eat cake because of the gluten. “Ohhh,” empathizes Della, “you’re allergic?” “No,” Macy replies, “it’s just a parameter I set for myself.” Those are terrific lines, and Jackson delivers them with ace comedic tim-

ing, but they make Macy an utterly laughable character when we’re supposed to have empathy for her. For much of the play, one secretly hopes Jen will cancel the wedding. Jen is as meek and non-confrontational as her partner is ferocious, and Power plays the role with a sweet, ever-conciliatory fragility. While staying at her relatives’ during a wedding planning trip, she refuses to sleep in the same bedroom as Macy “so they won’t have to think about it.” She feels guilty for even asking Della to make their cake. For much of the play, one secretly hopes Macy will cancel the wedding. Then there is the subplot about Della and her good-old-boy plumber husband Tim (Dixon Phillips). The fact that Jen and Macy are getting married sends Della into a funk about the sexlessness of her own partnership (because homosexuality is about sex?), and we end

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Jensen Power and Asia Jackson in a scene from playwright Bekah Brunstetter’s “The Cake,” now playing at New Conservatory Theatre Center.

up treated to scenes in which her breasts are covered in buttercream and his genitals are smeared with instant mashed potatoes. It’s hard to know what to make of the surreal, awkwardly unfunny scenes in which Della fantasizes about her upcoming appearances as

a contestant on “The Great American Baking Show.” The booming, judgmental voiceover of a Paul Hollywood/God figure alternately chastises her for refusing to bake the wedding cake for Jen and Macy and makes lascivious comments that awaken Della’s own dormant libido. There’s no new information here, just a gimmick. Carlos Aceves’ scenic design is pure comedy: the cakeshop is a pink-and-white rococo delight. But sound designer Kalon Thibodeaux’s selection of gloomy transitional music is weighty and sorrowful. “The Cake” is sometimes thoughtprovoking, but mostly empty calories.t The Cake, through Dec. 1. New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Ave., SF. Tickets ($25-$55): (415) 861-8972, www. nctsf.org.

It’s not just a stage by Gregg Shapiro

Bi-coastal lesbian vocalist Jen Fellman has populated her debut album “Forbidden Drive” (Broadway) with songs from a variety of sources. There are Broadway numbers (“Wherever He Ain’t,” “Love Look Away”), French chanson (“Mon Amant de Saint Jean,” “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg”), jazz (“I Get Along Without You Very Well,” “Stardust”) and even an original

(“New York Treasure”). Gay New Zealand transplant and musical theater performer Hayden Tee gives us divo realness on his new album “Face to Face” (Broadway). The characters in the songs he sings, many of whom he has inhabited on stage, are rebels and antagonists, and come from “Les Miserables” (“Stars,” “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables”), “Cabaret” (“I Don’t Care Much/So What”), “Love Never Dies” (“Til I Hear You Sing”), “Matilda” (“The Smell of Rebellion”) and “Floyd Collins” (“How Glory Goes”). Orville Peck and Black Belt Eagle Scout aren’t the only queer artists

using stage names. You can add Jay Som (aka Melina Mae Duterte) to that list. On her third album “Anak Ko” (Polyvinyl), translated from Tagalog “My Child,” Som sounds ready for mainstream stardom. The poppy shoegaze jangle of “Superbike” will grab the ears of listeners of all ages. “Nighttime Drive” feels like hipster Americana, complete with Annie Trusscott’s fiddle. “Tenderness” is powered by the subtlest of synth beats before it slinks into infectious funk. Portuguese alt-folk singersongwriter Filipa Marinho, has released her debut album, “~ aka Tilde” (Street Mission). Marinho addresses the fear of abandonment on “I Give Up and It’s OK.” Gay theater composer Andrew Lippa teamed up with cartoonist-

writer Jules Feiffer for a stage adaptation of Feiffer’s 1993 Y/A novel “The Man in the Ceiling.” Its world premiere recording (Ghostlight) features Lippa in the role of Uncle Lester, Grady Miranda as Lester’s nephew Jimmy, Tony Award-winning actor Gavin Creel as Jimmy’s father, and Tony nominee Kate Baldwin as Jimmy’s mother. Also based on a novel (by Ned Vizzini), the double-disc set “Be More Chill: Original Broadway Cast Recording” (Ghostlight) features music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and book by Joe Tracz. Set in the torture chamber known as high school, the musical touches on bullying, social ostracism, popularity, video games and drugs, as well as a bisexual character, Rich, played by Gerard Canonico.t

repeating the same phrase in a procession of ghosts that gradually fills the stage with glowing white forms. The Soviets embraced ballet. Under Agrippina Vaganova, the technique was magnified and made more heroic, to appeal to the popular audience, which made it not just OK for the Politburo, but also the leading edge of Soviet propaganda. Russian Ballet was so popular in the Third World that the U.S. mounted a cultural counterattack, sending American dance companies like New

York City Ballet. All the names that are big now were made that way by State Department funding. In the 60s, when Russian dancers “leapt to freedom” by defecting to the U.S., it was bombshell headlines, a huge propaganda coup for the USA. When they got here, the first thing Russian dancers wanted to share with American audiences was “La Bayadere,” excerpting the minimalist “Kingdom of the Shades” scene. It stunned critics and public. The minimalist artists of New York claimed it as minimalism

before its time. The show we saw is essentially the 1947 production, a Romeo-andJuliet-esque melodrama where true lovers are pulled apart by the law. It‘s tuned to the tastes of Stalin, with groveling slaves, spectacular acrobatics (jumps for the guys, overhead lifts for the ballerinas) including a bravura dance for a bronze idol wearing a loincloth and head-to-toe gold make-up that stops the show completely. The fakirs who dance around the fire in the first act, despite

their grey wigs, are nearly naked and have the bodies of 18-year-olds. They contort their bodies like shrimps when they leap. “Decorous lust” abounds: bare midriffs on anybody whose navel you might want to see. What waistlines these dancers have! Poshlust! Male and female, tanned with body makeup or white like marble, there’s “not an inch of fat,” except on the Rajah. With stylized folk dances, in the style Moiseyev perfected, this would not be too refined to play Vegas.t

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ou’ve got to give Michael Longoria, Broadway performer in “Jersey Boys” and “Hairspray,” credit for being ballsy. On his 2016 album “Broadway Brick by Brick” he powered his way through a set of popular songs from Broadway musicals. For his new album “Like They Do in the Movies” (Broadway), he turns his attention to songs from the cinema. Longoria begins the album with the catchy original “Kiss Me (Like They Do in the Movies)” before taking on well-known numbers “Arthur’s Theme,” “Evergreen,” “Wind Beneath My Wings,” “I Will Always Love You,” “My Heart Will Go On” and “The Rose.”

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Mariinsky Ballet

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It’s tested throughout the course of the ballet again and again. The power of his remorse is demonstrated in extenso, after many twists and turns, in the climax of the ballet (Act III), where an eight-bar phrase of Nikiya’s pleading solo gets heightened, stylized, and repeated in a hallucinatory vision, over and over by 32 dancers, a chorus of grieving spirits who enter one after another,

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Ice queen Adam Rippon pens memoir by Jim Piechota

Beautiful on the Outside by Adam Rippon; Grand Central Publishing, $28

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n his effortlessly breezy and entertaining memoir “Beautiful on the Outside,” U.S. Olympic athlete Adam Rippon demonstrates a natural knack for comedic writing. Combining the perfect amount of sass, self-deprecation, and gay wit, the bronze-medal-winning Olympian has struck a winning tone with his autobiography that tells the inside dirt behind the struggle to become a successful figure skater at any cost. Rippon admits he hated iceskating when he did it for the first time at age five, after begging his parents to take him to a small ski re-

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SF Trans Film Fest

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Transgender performer-activist Shawna Virago came aboard the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival in 2000. In an interview with the B.A.R., she explained her ethos behind the film festival. Rae Raucci: How did you develop the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, and how have your objectives for the show played out over the years? Shawna Virago: SFTFF is the world’s first and longest-running transgender film festival, and it’s built upon social-justice-seeking, anti-assimilationist, anti-oppression principles. It was started by my friends Christopher Lee and Alex Austin, and they brought me officially into the team in the early 2000s. Our goal has never been to become a giant, glossy festival. We don’t aspire to join corporate Hollywood – in fact, it’s quite the opposite. We’re proud of the complex, intersectional trans and gendernonconforming lives, histories and communities we showcase. What are you excited about in the films you chose for 2019? Any particular highlights coming up? I’m excited by all the films, all the programs at this year’s festival. Unlike most other festivals, SFTFF prioritizes and presents films that are made by trans and gender-nonconforming directors and filmmakers. It is profoundly important that trans people tell our own stories, instead of cisgender people telling

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Frankissstein

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The is-it-or-isn’t-it-good-literature dispute may never be settled, but its vitality as a thing of wonder persists. Back on the coroner’s slab, Shelley’s novel has been newly dissected and largely found pleasing in all of its parts. Its reputation as the first work of what we now call science fiction has been reinforced, its themes deemed forward-looking, and, critical for its future, it has been welcomed back as a damn good read. Last year, important critics wrote about it, one finding it as visionary as the little-known late Edgar Allen Poe prose poem “Eureka.” With her own 11th novel, Jeanette Winterson wrote at it, with “Frankissstein: A Love Story” (Grove Press). For all her book’s irrepressible wit, signaled by the title, the prolific British lesbian has made it the latest installment in her career-long musings on gender politics. And, as importantly, a damn good read. Winterson toggles between her imaginative recreation of the

sort in their hometown of Scranton, PA. Not only did he fall hard on the ice seconds after balancing himself, but his mother refused to purchase the white muff he’d wanted to wear

based on a painting of a “fabulous Victorian woman” he’d adored on a Christmas popcorn tin. “My poor mother,” he writes. “She didn’t know who she was dealing with.” Costumes became a large part of his childhood and early adulthood, right up through the times his overbearing mother would drive him to skating practices and began homeschooling him. His career began advancing beyond anyone’s expectations, including his own. His dedication, obsession, and hard work toward competitive ice-skating began to gel once Olympic possibilities surfaced and the promise of winning a medal came into focus. He vividly describes life at a highperformance camp and the shock of being invited to a weeklong training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Grueling train-

ing regimens began, hosted by a mixed array of trainers, including a detached Ukrainian named Denis who called him a “grape” athlete who was too juicy and needed drying out. His book gets personal with anecdotes about his parents’ divorce, Rippon’s first crushes on men, his coming out to his mother, and how several short-lived relationships gave him “the ability to be honest to everyone in my life about my sexuality.” He is candid about his early struggles with money and being chastised for being gay. Rippon’s career went through serious disappointments once he failed to make the Olympic Team in 2010 & 14, but he never gave up on the dream of winning a medal. The last third of the memoir affords a more in-depth view into Rippon’s life as the first openly gay

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man to become a member of the U.S. Winter Olympic Team. Rippon dedicates the book to his haters, whom he thanks “for being my motivators,” and whom he snappishly calls out as “not that cute, your hair is uneven, and you look dusty.” He writes about finding inspiration through dark times from watching reruns of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” recalling that “the contestants still put on a brave face and a glittery gown and still win, even after going through all sorts of awful things with their family and with society at large.” With a fun mix of humor and integrity, Rippon tells the heartfelt story of his eventful life as a gay athlete and his epic bronze medal win for the figure-skating team event at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018.t

our stories for us, and getting it wrong. This year’s festival includes two programs with ASL interpretation and closed captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences. How do you feel about the changing landscape for trans films? Are things getting better for trans filmmakers and the venues where they can show their films? We have a long way to go to see trans filmmakers truly honored and embraced. Trans people have been marginally discovered by Hollywood, but in a very uninspiring way. In any case, Hollywood or mainstream media have never been the focus of SFTFF. We’re a bit like a punk music label: we reject corporate assimilation. Instead, we joyfully embrace underrepresented voices, DIY aesthetics, and are proud to present truly brave filmmaking, super-queer quirkiness and wild imagination.

SFTFF 2019 highlights

This year’s Opening Night Film is “Transfinite” (Nov. 7, 7 p.m., ASL interpreted). This sci-fi omnibus feature film is composed of seven standalone magical short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight and thrive. Directed by Neelu Bhuman. “The Whistle” (Nov. 8, 8 p.m., ASL interpreted) A feature documentary film about a special time and place in Southwest U.S. LGBT history, and the secret codes shared among young queers and lesbians

birthing of Shelley’s novel and her own, snappy update on ways the gothic romance has played out in our time. Mary Shelley is Winterson’s most (arguably, only) warmblooded character, but the cast of “Frankissstein” emerges at least as winning as it is comic. Winterson brings her three principal original characters together at an international AI conference and a laboratory for new and improved cryogenic science in Phoenix, Arizona. Ron Lord, so crass he’s believable, makes and markets new and improved sexbots, all of them “girls.” His sometimes business partner is AI professor Victor Stein, who is not insensible to the commercial future. Rubbing shoulders and other body parts with them is the male transsexual physician Ry Shelley, whose “doubleness” the technocrats miss at first, reflexively superimposing the name Ryan on the doctor’s slyly contracted Mary. Occasions for sendups abound, and Winterson passes on none of them, her riotous satire somehow staying a nose ahead of cheap literary prank. True to form, it’s easy

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Scene from director Nour Hajar’s “Feeling like an Orchid.”

in 1970s and 80s Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a means of self-identification and finding community. Directed by StormMiguel Florez. “I-57” (Nov. 9, 7 p.m.) A mother tries to support her son and his gender identity by inviting a stranger to dinner. Featuring Pasean Wilson (“Gotham,” “Striptease”) and Cess Jones (“Orange is the New Black”). Directed by Livia Huang. “Feeling like an Orchid” (Nov. 9, 7 p.m.) A peek into the life of Morticia and her significant others, D and Twon. While they find dating can be tricky even within the queer, trans, and POC communities, this open throuple navigates those awkward

encounters knowing back home they will always reaffirm their love for one another. Directed by Nour Hajar. “To Be with You” (Nov. 9, 9 p.m.) Alex is in Los Angeles for 24 hours to reclaim their father’s ashes. Along the way, Alex finds an old love, a beauty in the city, and a final connection to the past. Directed by Elliott Feliciano. “Tender” (Nov. 10, 4 p.m.) is the story of three black trans women, their inextricable connections to San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, and the tensions caused by San Francisco’s gentrification and housing crisis. Directed by

Daryl B. Jones. “Run!” (Nov. 10, 6 p.m.) is a mythography of nuclear technology, pesticides, and the question of transgender people fighting in the US military. Filmed at the Trinity Site where the first atomic bomb was detonated, along the edges of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and at the abandoned Black Hole Museum of Nuclear Waste. Directed by Malic Amalya.t

to mistake invention for reality. Winterson’s CEO-entrepreneur of a cryonics laboratory, Max More is based on an actual person of that name and enterprise. Alan Turing drops by to mention, in passing, that when he coined the word “computer,” he referred not to the machine but its operator. In the sections set in the country house outside 19th-century Geneva, you feel the perpetual dampness, right through to the

bedclothes, of the writers’ foiled attempt to escape English weather. Not coincidentally, the most gripping present-day chapter is also precipitated by a drencher, if across the pond from Brexit Britain. In a plot-shifting early scene, Stein suggests he and Ry take a postprandial walk in the desert despite severe storm warnings. Soon enough, the two are sheltering under a rocky overhang, the charge coming less from the lightning than from the bodily contact through their sopped clothes. A shower back indoors yields a sex scene that surprises only Stein, who remains adamantly “not gay.” Mid-tryst he discovers that Ry does not have a penis but, in its place, a two-inch-long clitoris, whose 8,000 nerves, compared with the penis’ 4,000, is capable of its own palpable erection. Ry patiently, if also teasingly, explains, “I am a woman. And I am a man…. I am in the body I prefer. But the past, my past, isn’t subject to surgery. I didn’t do it to distance myself from myself. I did it to get nearer to myself.” When Stein, finally sexually

slaked, asks, “Why are you so easy in your body?,” Ry answers, “Because it really is my body. I had it made for me.” Love, however uneasy, ensues and prevails. Dystopia is in the wings whenever not center stage in “Frankissstein,” and it doesn’t take deep sleuthing to see that Winterson is, if not pessimistic about technology and its promises, as wary as she is educated. Yet for all the speculation about a trans-human future, it’s the all-too-human that prevails in her tale. Predictably, in “Frankissstein” body parts are nearly a preoccupation, but the one to which Winterson sings a verbal aria is the heart, in all its senses of the word. In front of an audience of his professional peers, Stein comments, “Artificial intelligence is not sentimental, it is biased toward best possible outcomes. The human race is not the best possible outcome.” But when Victor tells Ry, “I can’t decide with you, whether you are a Puritan or a Romantic,” Ry replies, “I am a human being.” “Frankissstein” is a stitch. And just in time.t

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Nightlife Events

November 7-14, 2019 What’s up with what’s going down? Find out with our comprehensive nightlife listings!

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Arts Events

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Thu 7 After Dark @ Exploratorium Enjoy cocktails and science demos at the hands-on museum. Nov 7: Facts and data. Nov. 14: farm fair fun. Tactile dome evening hours Fri & Sat, weekly 6:15 and 7:30pm. $20. Pier 15, Embarcadero at Green St. www.exploratorium.edu

Awooga @ The Stud DJs John Fucking Cartright, Kochina Rude, variety show, anarchic queens and more … or less. $7. 9pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Blanket the Homeless @ The Independent Benefit for the homeless nonprofit, with King Dream, Mickelson, members of Goodnight, TX & Ken Newman, and Shannon Koehler of the Stone Foxes. $15-$17. 8pm. 628 Divisadero. www.theindependentsf.com

Branford Marsalis @ Yoshi’s, Oakland

after-party. $25-$150 and up 6pm VIP reception, 8pm show. 401 Van Ness Ave. www.hairtostay.org/diva/

Three folk, America alt/country bands. No cover. 8pm-11pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Terror Vault @ SF Mint Peaches Christ’s annual horror-fun invasion of the historic building includes a full-scale spooky interactive tour. $62, various tour times. Thru Nov. 10. 88 5th St. intothedarksf.com

Friday Night celebration with a Burner theme, with art cars, dancers, DJs, marching bands and fire art performers. Dress up in your fave Playa gear. Free. 5pm-10pm; related to No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, an exhibit of amazing large artworks (thru Feb 16. Free/$15). Also late-night museum tours Nov. 14, 6pm-10pm ($12-$21).1000 Oak St. http://museumca.org/

Hair to Stay the Diva Way @ Herbst Theatre Isabel Leonard headlines a benefit concert for cancer survivors, with performers Katya Smirnoff-Skky, Vanessa Bousay, Shawnette Sulker, cellist Evan Kahn, and more, with Juanita MORE! DJing the Green Room

Bands & DJs @ Bottom of the Hill

Watch the British edition of the popular drag competition show. No cover; thru Dec 26. 8pm. Picante, Latin dancing follows (9pm-2am). 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

From the Heart @ Julia Morgan Ballroom

Trans Lifeline’s fifth anniversary party and fundraiser. Free-$100. 6pm-9pm. 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. St. translifeline.org

Tue 12

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Viewing @ The Café

Fri 8

Glow @ GitHub

Women’s night with a sultry vampire theme; goth, red & black, lingerie attire welcome but not required; bondage and BDSM demos, too. DJs Olga T and Jayne Grey. $5-$15. 8pm2am. 2344 Market St. beauxsf.com

Dana Morrigan hosts the 1st & 3rd Thursdays queer karaoke night, 7:30pm-1am. No cover. 1501 Harrison St., Oakland. tamarackoakland.com

The jazz great performs with his band at the stylish restaurant-nightclub. $44-$84. 8pm & 10pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

AIDS Legal Referral Panel’s 36th annual reception and auction fundraiser features gourmet catered hors d’oeuvres, wine and beverages, a silent & live auction. $100 and up. 6pm-9pm. Merchants Exchange Bldg., 465 California St. www.alrp.org

Vamp @ Beaux

Queeraoke @ Tamarack, Oakland

Secret Emchy Society, Shawna Virago, Amy Blue @ El Rio

Burning Man Block Party @ Oakland Museum

Cubcake @ Lone Star DJ Brian Hughes spins at the cub, chubs, bears, otters and treats night. $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Friday Nights at the Ho @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Dance it up at the historic (and still hip) East Bay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave. whitehorsebar.com

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Wizard Apprentice, Blacker Face, Louda and femme rockers Copyslut perform. $10. 8pm. 1233 17th St. http://www.bottomofthehill.com

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Mancrush Mondays @ Port Bar, Oakland

GAPA Happy Hour @ Beaux Gay Asian Pacific Alliance’s monthly gathering; 6pm-8pm. 2344 Market St. www.gapa.org www.beauxsf.com

Hiroshima @ Yoshi’s, Oakland The jazz fusion band performs at the stylish restaurant-nightclub. $34$74. 8pm & 10pm. Nov 9, 7:30pm & 9:30pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

Manimal @ Beaux Gogo-tastic dance night starts off your weekend. $5. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Writers With Drinks @ The Make Out Room

Sun 10

Wed 13

Apocrypha @ SF Eagle

Classic house music DJ night. $10. 9pm-4am. 299 9th St. at Harrison www.studsf.com

Glam Sundays @ Valencia Room

Sausage Fest @ Oasis Baloney’s new frat-sexy dance night, with hot sweaty ‘bro-on-bro demos, totes masc. hazing, and stupid drinking games,’ allegedly. $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Uhaul @ Jolene’s The popular women’s dance party returns at the new nightclub, now weekly. 10pm-2am. 2700 16th St. at Harrison. http://jolenessf.com/

Sat 9 Bearracuda @ SF Eagle DJs DeeJay and BoyShapedBox spin at the bear leather and underwear night; BLUF Leather Lounge on the patio, too. $10 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.bearracuda.com

Daddy’s Boy @ Atlas Super-cruisy semi-private club night where older and younger men mingle and more; clothes check, full bar. $10$20. 415 10th St. www.atlas-sf.com

Lisa Loeb @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The Grammy-winning singersongwriter performs her new cabaret concert. $80-$100 ($20 food/drink min.). 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinssf.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s popular weekly drag show, with wild acts and music tribute themes. Nov. 9 is a Cher tribute night. $15-$20. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Saturgay @ Qbar Stanley Frank spins house dance remixes at the intimate Castro dance bar. $3. 9pm-2am (weekly beer bust 2pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. QbarSF.com

Wine Trail Weekend @ Fasi Estate Winery 17th annual holiday spirit weekend, with visits to six wineries via shuttle bus, with live music, gift shopping, wine-tastings, gourmet food truck delights and lovely scenery. Also Nov. 10. $25-$30. MaderaWineTrail.com

Zodiac @ SF Eagle New weekly creepy-goth drag show and viewing party for the Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, with hosts Nitrix Oxide and Dakota Pendant. Ghoulish drag/attire appreciated. $5-$10. 8pm12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Pete Avila + Rolo @ The Stud

Drinks for LGBTQs and pals, plus vegan and chicken snacks. Weekly 4pm-9pm. 478 25th St., Oakland. www.foragekitchen.com

Our fave pop-country singer performs $88-$175 to $350 (VIP packaages). 8pm. 1 West Campbell Ave., Campbell. www.HeritageTheatre.org

The popular monthly literature and liquor night features Mike Isaac, Annalee Newitz, V. Vale, Malkia Devich Cyril, Nathaniel Popkin, Aubrey Hirsch, and host Charlie Jane Anders. $5-$20. 7pm. 3225 22nd St. www.makeoutroom.com

Post-beer bust night with host Mocha Fapalatte, DJ Spazatron and witchy drag shows. $5. 7pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Queer Happy Hour @ Forage Kitchen, Oakland

Melissa Etheridge @ Heritage Theatre, Campbell

New weekly house, funk, soul T-dance with guest-DJs and no cover. 3pm9pm. 647 Valencia St. www.glamsundays.com

Lachanze @ Venetian Room The Tony and Emmy-winning singeractress ( The Color Purple, Rent, Once on This Island) makes her Bay Area solo concert debut. $55-$65. 7:30pm. Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason St. www.bayareacabaret.org/artist_ LaChanze_19.html

Heat Veterans Ball @ Great Northern Cecil Russell’s 2nd annual militarythemed circuit dance party, with DJs Ben Bakson and Nina Flowers; gogos galore and a fun space. $15-$55. 6pm-1am. 119 Utah St. www.thegreatnorthernsf.com

Renegade @ Atlas The weekly cruisy semi-private party. 6pm-10pm. $5-$20. Now also Truck Tuesdays, and Thursdays, 9pm-2am. 415 10th St. www.atlas-sf.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The popular two-stepping linedancing, not-just-country music night, with free lessons, and plenty of fun;free admission/$5. 5pm10:30pm. Also Thursdays 6:30pm10:30pm. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

American Horror Story Night @ SF Eagle Watch AHS 1984, the camp/slasher FX Ryan Murphy TV series. 10pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. wildsidewest.com

Pan Dulce @ Beaux Drag divas, gogo studs, DJed Latin grooves and drinks at the Hump Day fiesta 9pm-2am (free before 10:30pm). 2344 Market St. www.clubpapi.com

Queeraoke @ El Rio Midweek drag rave and vocal open mic, with Dulce de Leche and guests. 10pm. 3158 Mission St. elriosf.com

Soirée by the Bay II @ Celebrity Eclipse The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundations’s second seafaring fundraiser includes terrific Bay views, cocktails, nibblies, a performance by Franc D’Ambrosio, dancing, and mermaids and mermen. $120 and up. 5:30pm-8:30pm. Board at SF Cruise Terminal, Pier 27, Embarcadero at Lombard. www.reaf-sf.org

Thu 14 Comedy @ Ashkenaz, Berkeley Lisa Geduldig hosts the monthly night of wits. $15-$20. 8pm. 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. www.ashkenaz.com

Goapele @ Yoshi’s, Oakland

Mon 11

The jazz-pop vocalist performs at the elegant restaurant-nightclub. $37. Nov 14 & 15, 8pm & 10pm. 16, 7:30pm & 9:30pm. 17, 7pm & 9pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

Mancrush Mondays @ Port Bar, Oakland

Harry Poofter & the Sorcerer’s Rhinestone @ Oasis

Drink & draw night with sexy male models; BYO art materials. 2st & 3rd Mondays. No cover, but 1-drink min. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun Drag night with Mercedez Munro. No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Music Mondays @ Pause Wine Bar Marcus Rivers plays live music at the stylish wine bar; weekly 8pm-10pm. 1666 Market St. yieldandpause.com

Premier of the drag parody of the J.K. Rowling fantasy books. $27-$50. 7pm. Thru Nov. 30. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show with host Sue Casa and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG Weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol ; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; 3rd is Kinky Karaoke 8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.comt

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Reading Events @ Green Arcade Nov. 8: Poetry Center artists Giancarlo Huapaya, Omar Pimienta, and José Antonio Villarán read new works. Nov 11: Teaching Resistance Editor John Mink. Nov 13: Wherever There is a Fight contributors. All 7pm. 1680 Market St. www.thegreenarcade.com

Fri 8

Elevada @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley

Sat 9 The Batman Armory @ Cartoon Art Museum Artwork, Batman props and costumes on display, thru Feb. 16. Pre-Code Horror: Scary Stories and Ghastly Graphics from EC Comics, thru March 1. Free/$10. 11am-5pm daily; closed Wed. 781 Beach St. www.cartoonart.org

LGBTQ Histories from the WWII Home Front @ Rosie the Riveter Visitor Education Center, Richmond

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Thu 7 Aunt Charlie’s @ Tenderloin Museum Multimedia exhibit about the historic Tenderloin drag bar. Exhibit thru Dec 1. Nov. 7, 6pm-9pm, reception for High Fantasy by Raphael Villet. 398 Eddy St. www.tenderloinmuseum.org

Cells to Self @ Exploratorium New exhibit with amazing displays showing how single cells in the human body work, portraits engineered from DNA and more (talks, hands-on workshops and nightlife events). $20-$30. Pier 15 at Embarcadero. www.exploratorium.edu

Dance Nation @ SF Playhouse Clare Barron’s dark comedy about competitive dancers in Florida, with teenagers played by adults. $35-$125. Thru Nov 9. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Driven @ Spark Arts Gallery Boni Alvarez’ new play about an actor who returns home to the Bay Area. $25-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm, thru Nov. 17. 4229 18th St. www.TheRhino.org

Fragments + Resistance @ Creativity Explored Dual exhibition of works by Joseph “JD” Green and John Iwaszewicz. Exhibit thru Nov. 7. 3245 16th St. www.creativityexplored.org

Give Us the Word @ Alley Cat Books Queer Rebels; People of Color reading and music night, with Mason J., Chibueze Crough, Blackberri, Dazié Rustin GregoSykes and Carolyn Wysinger. 7:30pm. 3036 24th St. www. alleycatbookshop.com

Michelle Meow Show @ Commonwealth Club

Cirque du Soleil @ Oracle Park

Meow and cohost John Zipperer discuss LGBT issues with guests. Weekly, 12pm. 110 Embarcadero. www.commonwealthclub.org

The amazing circus company brings Amalúna to the big tent. Pre-show festivities 6:30pm. Show 8pm. $54-$300. Wed-Mon most 8pm, +matinees. Thru Jan. 12. 24 Willie Mays Plaza (cross bridge to parking lot). www.cirquedusoleil.com

Reconsidering Randy Shilts @ GLBT History Museum Panel discussion about the investigative journalism and books by the late writer, with The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts author Andrew E. Stoner. $5. 7pm-9pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

No Regrets: A Celebration of Marlon Riggs @ BAM/PFA Screenings of films by the late African American gay artist and UC Berkeley professor, including Tongues Untied and Black Is…Black Ain’t. Thru Nov 25. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St., Berkeley. bampfa.org

SF Dance Film Festival @ Lucasfilm Theater Screenings of amazing dance films, including Queen + Bejart: Ballet for Life, a concert documentary of the ballet company’s works set to the rock band’s hits; $21-$75. 6pm. Festival thru Nov. 10. 1 Letterman Drive. www.sfdancefilmfest.org

Stomp @ Geary Theater The amazing percussive dance and drumming show, a world favorite for years, returns for a short SF run. $39-$125. Thru Nov. 10. 405 Geary St. www.act-sf.org

Fri 8 The Cake @ NCTC The Off-Broadway hit’s about a Christian baker whose daughter wants a cake for her same-sex wedding. $34-$49. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm thru Dec. 1. 25 Van Ness Ave. www.nctcsf.org

Classic and New Films @ Castro Theatre Nov. 8: Raging Bull (7pm) and Mean Streets (9:25). Nov 9: South Asian Film festival features. Nov 10-16: Scorsese’s new film, The Irishman (2:30, 7pm) $8-$16. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Park indoor exhibit that showcases the lives of historic LGBT people. Open daily 10am-5pm. 1414 Harbour Way South, Suite 3000, Richmond. nps.gov/rori/index.htm

San Francisco City Chorus @ Old First Presbyterian The chorus performs Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, the 1747 oratorio with the Baroque Orchestra Including Strings from the San Francisco Academy Orchestra. $20-$25. 7:30pm. 1751 Sacramento St. www.sfcitychorus.org

Faith Prince & Jason Graae @ Orinda Theatre The two Broadway vocal talents perform together. $50-$75. 5pm. 2 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda. www.OrindaMovies.com

Lachanze @ Venetian Room The Tony and Emmy-winning singeractress ( The Color Purple, Rent, Once on This Island) makes her Bay Area solo concert debut. $55-$65. 7:30pm. Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason St. www.bayareacabaret.org

Living the Shuffle @ The Marsh Berkeley Film director and actor Robert Townsend ( Hollywood Shuffle ) performs his solo show about the ups and down of the movie business. $25-$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm, Sun 5:30pm; thru Nov 8. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.themarsh.org

No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man @ Oakland Museum No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, an exhibit of amazing large artworks; thru Feb 16. Free/$15. 1000 Oak St. www.museumca.org

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley Same-sex partner tango dancing, including lessons for newbies, food and drinks. $5-$10. 3:30pm6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. www.finnishhall.org

Weekly hangout for LGBTQ youth, with crafts, snacks and activities. 12:30pm-2:30pm. James C. Hormel Center, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Shotgun Players’ production of Sheila Callaghan’s fascinating dramedy about digital immortality, end of life and grabbing the moment. Thru Nov. 17. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. shotgunplayers.org

Mon 11 Illuminate SF @ Citywide

Flea @ JCCSF

40+ installations of light art sculptures in and outside buildings by more than 30 local artists. Free; walking tour info at illuminatesf.com

Fri 8

Flea @ JCCSF

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child @ Curran Theater The acclaimed two-part musical based on the J.K. Rowling bestseller begins previews. $59-$300. Openended run. 445 Geary St. www.harrypottertheplay.com

Performance, Protest & Politics: Gilbert Baker’s Art @ GLBT History Museum New exhibit of the works and ephemera by and about the creator of the Rainbow Flag. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

SF Transgender Film Festival @ Roxie Theater Four-day festival of short and feature films from 12 countries, by and about transgender people. $12$25. 7pm opening night gala. Nov 8, 7:30pm. Nov 9, 7pm & 9pm. Nov 10, 4pm & 6pm. 3117 16th St. SFTFF.org

Testmatch @ Strand Theater American Conservatory Theater’s production of Kate Attwell’s dual-story about women’s cricket and British colonialism and power. $15-$110. Tue-Sat 7:30pm. Wed & Sat 2pm. Thru Dec. 8. 1127 Market St. www.act-sf.org

William Blake in Color @ William Blake Gallery Exhibit of classic plates in the new gallery of historic art by the 18th- and 19th-century poet and illustrator. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm. Sat 11am-5pm. 49 Geary St. #205. www.williamblakegallery.com

Tue 12 Gallery of Illustrious Queers @ SF Main Library Photographer Jordan Reznick’s LGBT portrait photo exhibit. Hormel Center, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Kimberly Dark @ SF Public Library Author of the lesbian-themed The Daddies reads from and dicsusses her new novel. 6pm.Hormel Center, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. sfpl.org

Gypsy @ Alcazar Theatre The classic Styne, Sondheim, Laurents musical about the life of Gypsy Rose Lee and her vaudeville family gets a Bay Area Musicals local production. $30-$100. 8pm. Thru Dec. 8. 650 Geary St. www.bamsf.org

Melissa Etheridge @ Heritage Theatre, Campbell Our fave pop-country singer performs $88-$175 to $350 (VIP packaages). 8pm. 1 West Campbell Ave., Campbell. www.HeritageTheatre.org

Hair to Stay the Diva Way @ Herbst Theatre Isabel Leonard headlines a benefit concert for cancer survivors, with performers Katya Smirnoff-Skky, Vanessa Bousay, Shawnette Sulker, cellist Evan Kahn, and more, with Juanita MORE! DJing the Green Room after-party. $25-$150 and up 6pm VIP reception, 8pm show. 401 Van Ness Ave. hairtostay.org/diva/

Sun 10

Sprightly @ SF Public Library

Elevada @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley

The bass player for The Red Hot Chili Peppers discusses his life and memoir, Acid for the Children. $75-$95. 7pm. SF Jewish Community Center, 3200 California St. jccsf.org

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Miss Saigon @ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

Sat 9

Transfinite at SF Transgender Film Festival @ Roxie Theater

New national tour of the Cameron Mackintosh hit musical set in wartime Vietnam. $43-$120. Thru Nov. 17. 150 West San Carlos St., San Jose. www.broadwaysanjose.com

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Beth Leavel Broadway star of ‘The Prom’ at Feinstein’s

Beth Leavel

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ometime next year, the whole world will have the opportunity to meet Dee Dee Allen. She’s an over-the-top Broadway diva who, with a motley crew of public-

ity-seeking New York thespian pals, comes to the aid of midwestern lesbian high school student in the 2018 musical comedy The Prom. In a recent interview with Beth Leavel—who was Tony-nominated for the role and appears at Fein-

stein’s at the Nikko next weekend— the Bay Area Reporter asked if it was true that the part was written with her in mind. Leavel begged to differ: “Not written with me in mind,” she fauxharrumphed a la Dee Dee, “Created especially for me! My DNA is all over it.” In fact, Leavel, a crackerjack comic performer, worked closely with the show’s creative team over seven years of development, including a run at Atlanta’s Alliance Theater two years prior to its arriving on Broadway. “We must have changed the lyrics to the opening number 50 times,” she recalls. “I was going onstage with new lines in my bra.” Her relationship with The Prom’s white-hot director Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Mean Girls) goes back to 1992, when they sang and danced together in the company of Crazy for You (his Broadway debut, her second show, following 42nd Street). And Nicholaw directed her in 2006’s The Drowsy Chaperone, for which Leavel won a featured actress Tony. Alas, when The Prom debuts as a Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix film in 2020, Leavel will not appear in her signature role. “They gave the part to a real up-and-comer,” she laments. “Her

name’s Meryl Streep.” “What are you gonna do?” Leavel notes good naturedly. It takes huge names to sell movie musical these days. The Netflix version of The Prom also counts James Corden, Nicole Kidman and Ariana Grande among its cast. “Look, she’s a hero,” says Leavel, who says that Streep did come to see her perform as Dee Dee on Broadway. “She can always call me if she needs some tips.” Still, just as La Streep doing The Devil Wears Prada only burnishes the reputation of Anna Wintour, her taking on Dee Dee Allen should bring well-earned attention to Beth Leavel. In fact, Leavel says she’s on the brink of a major Broadway announcement. “Hopefully I’ll be able to tell everyone in San Francisco.”

Playmates and soul mates...

San Francisco:

1-415-692-5774 Beth Brant Tribute @ SF Public Library

Wed 13 Africa State of Mind @ MOAD Traveling exhibit curated by Ekow Eshun includes 16 artists’ works focusing on the idea of ‘Africanness.’ Also, The Sacred Star of Isis and Other Stories, photos by Adama Delphine Fawundo; also Rashaad Newsome’s Stop Playing in My Face!, a Black queer multimedia installation. Free/$10. Both thru Nov. 15. 685 Mission St. www.moadsf.org

James Tissot @ Legion of Honor

Thu 14

James Tissot: Fashion & Faith (thru Feb 9); Strange Days: Dada, Surrealism, and the Book (thru Nov 10), other beautiful exhibits of classical and modern art. Free/$30. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. legionofhonor.famsf.org

Thu 14

Safeway Holiday Ice Rink @ Union Square

Annabeth Rosen @ Cont. Jewish Museum

The ice rink in the middle of downtown SF is open for skating fun. Skate rentals $3-$18. 10am-11:30pm thru Jan. 20. Union Square, 333 Post St. unionsquareicerink.com

Karinda Dobbins at Who’s Your Mami Comedy @ Brava Theatre Center

Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped, an exhibit of works by the Californian sculptor; thru Jan 19. Other exhibits, too. Free/$17. 736 Mission St. www.thecjm.org

Celebrating the life and legacy of the late Beth Brant on the occasion of the publication of A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant (Edited by Janice Gould); featured Readers: Qwo-Li Driskill, Lourdes Figueroa, Jennifer Foerster, Elena Gross, Thea Matthews, Kim Shuck and Lisa Tatonetti. 6pm. Hormel Center, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Lucy Jane Bledsoe @ Books Inc. Berkeley The award-winning local author reads from and discusses her new Young Adult adventure novel, Running Wild. 7pm. 1491 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, www.lucyjanebledsoe.com

Modern Art Exhibits @ SF MOMA Nov 14: Zackary Drucker and Susan Stryker discuss the photography exhibit of works by April Dawn Alison (7pm, floor 1). Soft Power, a new exhibit of 20 artists, 12 countries, 58 new works. The Chronicles of San Francisco, photo-muralist JR’s interactive community giant group portrait; also, Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes ; Far Out: Suits, Habs, and Labs for Outer Space ; other exhibits of Modern art. Free/$25. Fri-Tue 10am-5pm; Thu 10am-9pm. 151 3rd St. www.sfmoma.org

Who’s Your Mami Comedy @ Brava Theatre Center

Mon 11

Illuminate SF @ Citywide

Karinda Dobbins headlines the monthly women-led comedy night, with Nato Green, Natasha Muse, Michael Foul, and Natasha Vinik. $10-$15. 8pm. 2773 24th St. www.brava.orgt

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Meanwhile, audiences at Feinstein’s will have an opportunity to hear songs from The Prom performed by the woman for whom they were actually written. Leavel’s cabaret act will also include musical selections from some of the dozen other Broadway shows she’s been in, an eclectic list that ranges from Showboat to Mamma Mia to Elf. Asked which of her shows has meant the most to her, though, Leavel doesn’t hesitate. “It breaks my heart that The Prom closed. It wasn’t based on a brand, it didn’t have a big TV star to sell tickets. But I loved it and I wish it ran longer.”t Beth Leavel performs at Feinstein’s at the Nikko November 15 and 16, 8pm. $55-$85 ($20 food/drink min.). Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

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Drummer redux Famed leather magazine gets a reboot

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Drummer Editor Mike Miksche; Jack MacCullum, Owner and Publisher; and Eisen Lock, who was the magazine’s first cover model.

The new magazine’s team doesn’t that this magazine will teach kinksters in remote places that there’s feel there is a gay leather and kink nothing wrong with the kinky depublication currently doing that in sires that they might be feeling.” North America. They hope DrumThe relaunch of the magazine has mer fills that void. McKenzie James been active and robust. They’ve alAnother unique aspect of the Sexy hunks Teddy Torres (left) and Eisen Loch (right) from the Drummer cover photo shoot. ready had relaunch parties in Berlin magazine is their intention to use and Palm Springs. They have others real men in the photography versus planned for Fort Lauderdale models whenever possible so that it interesting. Drummer Magazine by Race Bannon and Toronto, and there will be best reflects their readers. Other feand the associated contest has been an event they’re co-hosting in tish publications tend to use young ny man who traveled within a large part of my coming out exLondon next year. Along with men who are muscled or lean. the gay leather world of the perience since 1979, from the first the magazine relaunch, they’ve There’s nothing wrong with that, late 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s likely read time I picked up the magazine to made available Drummerbut Drummer is choosing to go for or knew of Drummer magazine. my title run in 1988 to my run for branded merchandise that they something more real and honest, Founded by John H. Embry and Mid-Atlantic Drummer (D.N.A., hope to expand over time. because they think it’s much sexier. Jeanne Barney in Los Angeles in aka Drummer North America) in MacCullum and Miksche I’m excited to see an important 1975, it quickly grew to become the 2016, and then becoming the Naare both dedicated to honmagazine for kinky gay men rise iconic publication chronicling and tional titleholder for D.N.A. in 2017. oring the reputation of the from the ashes. For information nurturing the fantasies of gay men’s “I ran for D.N.A. understanding original Drummer. When it about Drummer, visit their website: leather subculture. it was the original Drummer title. came to designing the look www.DrummerMen.comt The last issue of Drummer was In January 2018, as the current titleof the new magazine, it was published in 1999. Until now. holder of D.N.A., I experienced the important for them to stay Race Bannon is a local author, Drummer is back. In early October a implosion of that title cirtrue to the magazine’s roots. blogger and activist. new iteration of the magacuit and was appointed the www.bannon.com So, they ended up using the zine debuted. epicenter of that implooriginal logo from 1975, Before I continue, in sion. My partner, Spike, but created a modern the interest of full disand I began some reenvironment in which it closure, I write for the search on who actually PIGtures can exist. new Drummer and I had owned Drummer – the Another way they strong ties to the origiThe new Drummer magazine intends magazine, events and to represent kinks and fetishes of many honored the original nal. One of the magacontest. The internet is an was through publicakinds, rubber being one of them. zine’s past owners, Tony amazing thing. tion issue numbering. DeBlase, was as close as “After some digging, we The original Drummer I had to a mentor during found that the last owner to its roots while still looking to the ended at issue 214. They the most active part of my BDSM was Martijn Bakker, owner of RoB future. Miksche reports that the rerelaunched the magazine education phase. Amsterdam. I began negotiating sponse has been overwhelmingly as issue 215. They have also With that said, I am incredibly with Martijn in March of 2018. Over positive. reached out to some original excited that a magazine that fua period of six months we came to While Miksche says that he hasn’t Drummer alumni to advise eled and fostered my fantasies and an agreement and I finalized the heard a single negative thing about and contribute, and many so much of early gay men’s leather, purchase during Amsterdam Leaththe relaunched magazine, he and have said yes. BDSM and kink culture has been er Pride 2018.” MacCullum are always open to The impetus behind revivrevived. Mike Miksche, the Editor of constructive criticism that can help ing Drummer was a feeling I asked Jack MacCullum, the Drummer, mentioned that prior to them improve the magazine for futhat it is unlike any other owner and Publisher of the new the magazine’s launch he and Macture issues. publication currently availDrummer, what made him decide Cullum were quite nervous. They I asked Miksche what their vision able. As MacCullum pointed to bring back the magazine and the felt a lot of pressure to live up to was for the new Drummer. out in the premiere issue, process to acquire it. the original Drummer of yester“Our vision is to accurately reflect “Our goal is to celebrate “The process was actually quite year. Their objective was to be true the gay leather scene while educatmasculine, gay leather sexuing our readers about fetishes and ality that is free of misogyny, Cover of the first issue #215 kinks that are underreported or untransphobia, and racism of of the relaunched Drummer featuring Eisen Loch. derrepresented. One of my hopes is any kind.”

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